Re: [Cz-L] Bukowina Minhagim

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

To add to what Bruce Reisch wrote:

The Wiznitzer Rabbi and Chassidim, were especially renown for the beautiful
"Negunim" of their prayers and their "Zmirot" ( songs sung after Friday and
Saturday evenings' dinner and on various holydays.

The Wiznitzers were an offshoot of the Kosover Chassidim. Kosov is to the
north-west of Czernowitz, in Galitzia, but close to the region of Maramures.

One set of my great-grand-parents moved to Czernowitz in 1879 - 1880 from
that region. They had been Kosover Chassidim, but in Czernowitz became
Wiznitzer Chassidim. One of their sons moved to Radauti, where he carried on
the Wiznitzer traditions.

The Wiznitzer Chassidim take care of the synagogue in present day Vinitza
and those of us who were at the 2006 reunion in Chernivtsi, met a group of
them, at the Cheremosh hotel. I found a third cousins among them.

Mimi
 

 


> Hi Reuven:
>
> There is quite a bit about the Chassidim of Bukovina in Hugo Gold's
> two volume work on the History of the Jews in the Bukowina. Most has
> been translated (by the very generous Jerome Silverbush) and placed
> online:
>
> http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Bukowinabook/Bukowina.html
>
> My paternal grandmother's family was from Radautz, and in New York I
> found numerous examples of their association with Hager rabbis.
> There was a Wiznitzer Shul in Radautz, and though to the best of my
> knowledge my family was not Hasidic, I believe they thought highly of
> the Wiznitzer rabbis. At least one branch of my Radautz family was
> also from Wiznitz. The same was true of my Reisch family from
> Sadagora - though not Hasidic to the best of my knowledge, I found
> out from the current Sadagora Rebbe in B'nei B'rak that my
> grandfather had once met with his father in the 1950s (during the
> Rebbe's visit to New York) to ask for a special blessing for a
> grandchild.
>
> Best regards,
> Bruce Reisch
>

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