Re: it happened Hannukah from Barbara Meagher on 2003-12-19 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Barbara Meagher <bmeagher_at_rogers.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:59:16 -0500
To: <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>, <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-To: bmeagher_at_rogers.com

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What a lovely and
heartwarming story..............a wonderful and very fitting tribute to your
father, and to you also for recalling and retelling it. Could very well have
been a Christmas story..................<G

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 style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black">From:
 <A title=lucca99_at_netvision.net.il href="mailto:lucca99_at_netvision.net.il">Lucca
 Ginsburg</A>
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">To: <A title=Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
 href="mailto:Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu">czernowitz czernowitz</A>
 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:42
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 <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">Subject: it happened Hannukah
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 On the second day of Hannukah in 1959 my father saw an
 elderly man sitting alone on a bench in front of the Haifa
 Municipality.
 He looked familiar, so my father approached and after a
 better look at him, he asked:
 -"Aren't you Mr. Meshulam Friedmann of the Friedmann
 Vegetarian Restaurant in tbe Russischen Gasse in Czernowitz?
 -"Yes, I am!" said the man.
 -"So why are you sitting here outside in the
 cold?"

 Mr. Friedmann told my father that he lived with his son and
 daughter-in-law who had a small boy in a very small apartment. It often
 got very crowded. Truth was that his daughter-in-law was not delighted
 about his constant presence, and there were often arguments between the
 couple. Mr. Friedmann told my father that he tries his best to be out of the
 house as much as possible.

 Do you remember the Friedmann Restaurant? Do you remember
 the vegetable soups, the pirogen, the Totsch, the luscious cakes? This
 restaurant was a landmark in all of the Bucovina.

 Anyway, my father invited Mr. Friedmann to come along to our
 house for lunch, which he did. In the course of further talk, Mr. F. said he
 would like some other living quarters, and it so happened that a single man
 rented out a room of his flat in our house.
 Mr. Friedmann moved in the same day.

 He became a member of our family. We celebrated all holidays
 together, and I...have a recipe book of some very luscious cakes which were
 offered at the Friedmann restaurant. Of course he himself never worked in the
 kitchen, but he still remembered how certain cakes were made. I also have many
 photos of him, he was such a pleasant looking man.
 In fact he had one son, Salo Friedmann living in New York,
 married to a cousin of my mother's, and he had another son living with his
 wife in Nazareth.
 Sometimes...own children are not the answer. He adopted our
 family, or rather we adopted him until the day he got very ill and passed
 away. 

 I wish you all a Very Happy and Carefree
 Hannukah!
 Lucca

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