Re: [Cz-L] Jewish Bukowina museum picture

Hi, Mimi and all,

In response to your question:
I tried, quite hard, to find an e-mail address or any other contact with a
webmaster and did not succeed.
I checked each of the following links:
Religion
Synagogues
Customs
Education
Culture
Literature
Arts
Politics
Tolerance
Deportation
Diaspora

It is not really a Jewish History Encyclopaedia in Russian. It is just a
translation of several chapters/entries of the original Hebrew Encyclopaedia
of Jewish History. Each of those chapters deals with one of the
above-mentioned eleven topics. When you click on one of those links you get
a summary of the respective topic/entry and on the screen you'll also find
a click to a more detailed and elaborate discussion. In general, it is a
wonderful educational presentation intended for Russian speaking people all
over the world, not just Jews, who are interested to know more about Judaism
and the history of the Jewish people.
I hope it is quite clear by now.
Hag Sameach,
Abraham K.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Abraham Kogan" <akogan_at_netvision.net.il>; "Jerome Schatten"
<romers_at_shaw.ca>; "Czernowitz Genealogy and History"
<czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Jewish Bukowina museum picture


> Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>
> Thank you Avram, for writing and explaining.
> Do you know why this Jewish History Encyclopedia is in Russian?
>
> To me, it does not matter what the origin of the picture is.
> What matters, is that in this picture a large Moorish style building
> is depicted together with a strange looking person, almost identical
> to the Anti-Semitic caricatures, which we often saw in the past.
> The artist could have used a picture of Maimonides or one of Israels'
> paintings as a model for a Jewish figure.
>
> I shall greatly appreciate it, if you could find out to whom,
> of those responsible for this website, I could write in order to ask,
> that they change he picture.
>
> Mimi
>
>> It has nothing to do with Natalia Shevchenko's project. It is an
>> electronic
>> Encyclopaedia. See my e-mail to Hardy .
>> "Hi, Hardy ,
>> You mentioned "attached posts of this picture on the Gruss", but I don't
>> have any link to those posts.
>> Nevertheless, I opened several links specified in the virtual museum.
>> The
>> website is a Russian version of a Jewish History Encyclopaedia, a joint
>> project sponsored by The Holocaust Claims Conference, the Hebrew
>> University
>> in Jerusalem, the Society for Research on Jewish Communities, "Haaguda
>> Lecheker Tfutsot Israel", the Avi-Hay Foundation, etc. and other well
>> known
>> institutions. When you click on the "Synagogues" link there is a very
>> interesting and well written description of the religious and social
>> importance of the synagogues, very detailed. The encyclopaedia, which
>> seems
>> to be very comprehensive, is intended for dissemination abroad. I did
>> not
>> find anything wrong or offensive in the Russia text it is a wonderful
>> educational tool, perhaps too detailed.
>> In my view, the picture is OK it was almost probably taken from a
>> painting
>> depicting a Hassidic Jew praying. It is not a "Nebekh" and should not be
>> interpreted as a caricature."
>> Regards, Abraham K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
>> To: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "Czernowitz Genealogy and
>> History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Jewish Bukowina museum picture
>>
>>> Mimi and All,
>>> If I understand well, this virtual museum has nothing to do with the
>>> Bukovina Jewish Museum of Natalia Shevchenko.
>>> I believe it's situated here in Israel.
>>> If some russian language reader would go into the attached posts of
>>> this picture on the Gruss , we would know more.
>>>
>>> Hardy
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
>> To: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "Czernowitz Genealogy and
>> History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 9:54 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Jewish Bukowina museum picture
>>
>>
>>> Mimi, et al...
>>>
>>>
>>> First off, I object strongly to using the use of 'many of us' in
>>> communicating displeasure about the picture. I for one see nothing
>>> wrong
>>> with it. Obviously there are others that are neutral or feel the same
>>> way.
>>>
>>> Those folks who are displeased can privately vent their displeasure at
>>> the creators of that website rather than intimating that the group is
>>> displeased. There are after all, over 250 of 'us'.
>>>
>>> As well, I think it would be a mistake, unless you have evidence to the
>>> contrary, to assume that Natalya Shevchenko is involved in this museum.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> jerome
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:55:12 -0700, Miriam Taylor
>>> <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> Since so many of us do not like this picture, let's do something
>>>> about it. A number of members of this list are either painters or
>>>> good at working with photographs. If some of them would please
>>>> design a more suitable picture and send it to Natalya Shevchenko,
>>>> I am confident that she would be persuaded to place it instead of
>>>> the current one.
>>>>
>>>> As source material I would suggest photographs from our own website,
>>>> or photographs of Oberrabiner Mark, or Oberrabiner Igel, from Hugo
>>>> Gold's
>>>> book.
>>>>
>>>> Shabbat Shalom,
>>>>
>>>> Mimi
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