[Cz-L] CZERNOWITZER WRITERS

CZERNOWITZER WRITERS.

Czernowitzer are not only language wizards but also
very compulsive writers.
   Every Czernowitzer I know has written a book or two.
     Almost all of them autobiographies.
    All tell their personal story set against the
background of Czernowitz in the period between the
World Wars.
     The stories differ only in the personal touch, the historic
facts are the same.
     For writing you require 3 essential requirements:
1. A story
2. Talent
3. Language
The story is always set in prewar Czernowitz ,ending in
the post holocaust period in the new places where they settled.

Talent - well , Czernowitzer are very talented people -
they can write books as good as anybody.
Language - most of these books appear in English.
   Not that Czernowitzer are big masters of the English language,
rivalling Dickens or Shaw but simply due to the fact that they
are not able to write in their mother tongue - Czernowitzer German.

   It appears that today there are more Czernowitz autobiographies
than Czernowitz survivors for most have written more than one
book.
     Some are fascinating narrations ,well written - others are not
. How is the printing financed ? Mostly by the authors.
    Who buys these books ? Czernowitzer old timers ?
         They know the story , they will not spend time and money
      to hear other people's stories.
      If they had the time they would rather write another book.
      An autobiography ?
         You betŠ

Hardy
   
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