[Cz-L] new stuff in the 'downloads' area

Greetings Czernowitzers!

I had several responses (on and off list, and I thank you all) to my
question about whether the Hebrew and the Yiddish spellings of CZERNOWITZ
were pretty much the same or not. David Kessler was kind enough to send a
small gif file so that one can do their own comparisons. Have a look at:
http://czernowitz.dnsalias.org/downloads/HebYidCompare.gifApparently there
are two ways that Czernowitz is spelled in Hebrew; one looks pretty much
like the Yiddish (give a vase and take a vov and an ayin), and the other is
quite different. So it goes -- a moot question as Bernie Levy suggests.

Remember the beautiful Machzur cover page from Lilian Madfes
http://czernowitz.dnsalias.org/lilian/Machzur-a.jpg ? Well, Fearless Bruce
found an 1857 Pentateuch being sold on e-bay that was printed in Czernowitz.
Although the quality of the photo is low it's worth taking a look at this
cover page at: http://czernowitz.dnsalias.org/downloads/pentateuch.jpg BTW,
I'm going to move Lilian's submission to a page in the List Members Pages
section that will anchor the Machzur and her future submissions.

Next is a 1911 map of the Austro-Hungarian empire showing the distribution
of population by ethnicity. It's an excellent quality map at:
http://czernowitz.dnsalias.org/downloads/A-H_1911.jpg Since we're talking
maps, also new is a CIA 1993 relief map of the Ukraine at:
http://czernowitz.dnsalias.org/downloads/ukraine_rel93.jpg It interested
me because it also shows good portions of Belarus, Romania, some Russia and
Poland -- kind of put things in perspective for me. These maps will be
pulled from the downloads section and put up in the maps section in a week
or so.

Now, my usual cry for submissions... let's get into those old trunks and see
what's there. What you might think is dull may be just what someone else is
looking for. More stuff, we need more stuff!

That's it, best regards,
jerome
Received on 2004-04-01 08:21:50