[Cz-L] My visit to Czernowitz

Dear All,

I left Chernivtsi on the 16th, but returned home only yesterday night.
There is a lot to tell about the city, the cemetery, the Popovici plaque,
the various people I met, etc. Hopefully, I shall have a lot of photographs
as well. These I will send to Jerome to be put on the "ehpes" website.

The city.

The repair and painting of buildings in the center of town is almost
completed. The plastering of walls, repair to architectural decorations and
such, is being done very professionally and carefully. The paints used in
repainting the buildings are more colorful than I would have liked, but are
generally not garish and the general look is similar to what is being done
in Hungary and Austria. The Herrengasse is being completely repaved, with
the small square stones set in a lozenge pattern. Trees are being planted
in the center of the street, which will be closed to automobile traffic.
To separate the street from the sidewalk, they are setting long narrow
Strips of polished granite, on which at regular intervals, are incised the
various languages names of the city. I saw: Czernowitz, Cernauti, Czernowitz
in Yiddish, Polish, Russian and of course Ukrainian. It looks beautiful.
All together, Czernowitz is a beautiful city and the city plan laid out by
Ober-Rabiner Igel and the metropolitan of the time, is a very sensible and
pleasant one.
I compared it with Baia Mare and Cluj in Romania, Gyor in Hungary and
Czernowitz is definitely the winner.

Changes, alterations and building of new buildings in the old part of town
are not allowed. The Volksgarten is being maintained, the Turken-Brunnen is
being rebuilt, even the Tempel has been beautifully repainted. More about
the Tempel at another time.

Mimi
    
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