Florence Heymann

My name is Florence Heymann. I am 56 years old, married with Jacky (Yaacov) Heymann (originally from Strasbourg France, living in Israel since 1/964), four children (Elinadav, Sarah, Vania and Anaëlle, two grand-children (Yair and Eliyah). I live in Jerusalem and all my children too.

All my paternal family was from Czernowitz. My father wame to France in 1936. My maiden name is Herschmann, and we had also Feuer and Kramer in the family.

My ties with Czernowitz were, in the beginning, a curiosity for my roots. I was born in France (Nice) and we were, during all my life there (until 1980) more French than the French people.

But in 1978, I decided to write my PhD thesis about the Jewish identities in Czernowitz and I continue until now to write on the subject and also on related matters, like constructions and deconstructions of religious identities, but also familial identities, national identities, and so on.

I am writing now a book about the Shoah in Transnistria (all my books are in French and not translated until now). And I have also right now to write a paper about the sport in Cz. If somebody have informations or something to tell about this subject, it will be great.

Florence Heymann