[Cz-L] Gaudeamus igitur.....

We are all indebted to Mimi Taylor for her patience and insistence in
bringing the Popovici plaque project to a successful end.
Gaudeamus igitur (Therefore let us rejoice)

I checked the announcement of the Plaque approval on the internet edition of
Molodey Bukovinetz (12/22/2008) and discovered in the same issue the
following:
An announcement that a memorial plaque honoring Karl Emil Franzos will be
placed on the building of School No. 1, the precursor of which he attended
in 1859-67. The article informs the reader that Franzos described the lives
of Ukrainian peasants, had Ukrainian acquaintances, and translated the
poetry of Shevchenko, and other Ukrainian writers.
My gut reaction was that if history was to be served and worthy people
memorialized, plaques in Czernowitz have gone astray by a wide margin. But
wait !!!! In the same issue I found another article with the title "The Jew
Franzos wrote in German about Ukrainians". The article provides a short
biography of Franzos, describes him as the founder of the "Ghetto novel"
with his short story "David der Bocher", and details his journalistic
activities and travels throughout Europe and the Near East. And so the
Molodey Bukovinetz, not unlike Paul Celan in his reference to Franzos as his
"rediscovered Landsmann", remembers today the great Jewish-German poet of
past centuries.

School No. 1, previously the Erstes Kaiserliches Staatsgymnasium and the
Liceul "Aron Pumnul", also my alma mater, seems to excel in honoring its
former students: when I visited Czernowitz about a decade ago, its name was
"Mihai Eminescu School" and a Soviet plaque honored the student Manfred
Stern, who as General Emilio Kleber commanded the battalions of the
International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War (he died in a Siberian
Gulag).

Alfred (Fred) Schneider


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