[Cz-L] Interesting Book "The Jewry of Bukowina between the two World Wars"

Dear fellow Bukowiner,

Two years ago the Tel Aviv University published a very interesting book "The
Jewry of Bukowina between the two World Wars" written by Dr. David Shaari,
after many many years of research. He wrote it in Hebrew and intended to
have it translated to English (and perhaps also to German). Unfortunately,
he meanwhile passed away and only the Hebrew original version is available.

I bought a copy, read it and enjoyed finding a great deal of interesting
information, not covered by other historians. As a historian, in 1998 he
got an invitation from the Ukrainian authorities to come to Czernowitz,
together with a colleague from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where
they got free access to all the Government official archives and managed to
gather a great deal of material for his research. Upon return, he was quite
excited to tell me that he had reviewed the material in the former Jewish
National House, on Fischplatz, where 90 years earlier the First
International Yiddish Language Conference was supposed to take place.

I was just approached by Dr. Shaari's widow, who is very eager to find
somebody who would be interested to help finding somebody to translate the
book to English and eventually publish it. She is just interested to make an
English translation available to all English speaking Bukowiner (second and
third generation Bukowiner); for her, it is not a matter of getting money by
having the book published because she had to award the copyrights to the Tel
Aviv University. The University acknowledged that they would have no
objection to have the book translated into English, free of any fees.

My question to you is:
Is there anyone, among the Cz.-List members, who would be willing to help
doing that, either by finding a translator, a person who would be willing to
finance it, to find a publisher, etc. ? Anybody who can and is willing to
help, please let me know; I'll establish the contact with Mrs. Mary Shaari.

Regards to everybody, Abraham Kogan
Received on 2006-12-06 14:48:10