Fw: [Cz-L] Postcards and Photos

       MARKETPLACE WITH TEMPLE.

   This is a picture by Oskar Laske , famous jewish painter of Vienna,
     born in Czernowitz.
       This is not an antisemitic poster !
   Hardy


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Berti" <berti_at_netvision.net.il>
> To: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>; "czernowitz-L"
> <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Postcards and Photos
>
>
>> Most pictures are of course from before WW!, some during the interwar
>> period and some of the last ones during WW2 showing German soldiers.
>>
>> On No 22 the text reads "Templu(l) evreesc din Cernauti" meaning Jewish
>> temple of Cernowitz. It is obviously a caricature and free drawing of the
>> market place
>>
>> that borderded the Theaterplatz (Vasile Alexandri) up to the
>> Universitaetsgasse corner Tempelgasse with the Temple shown as
>> background. The singular not
>>
>> articulated form of Templu, a Temple instead "the Temple" seams to
>> indicate that the author just took the Temple (there was only one in
>> Czernowitz but an
>>
>> uninformed spectator might not know that) as an example for "real" Jewish
>> culture as reflected by the 3 Jews in the forefront. Observe that all the
>> other people on
>>
>> the market picture are entirely gentile. This anti-Semitic poster must
>> have been created sometimes in the late 1930th or during the war in the
>> 1940th.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Berti Glaubach, Haifa.

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