Re: [Cz-L] missing relatives

I remember when visitors dropped in summer in the afternoon a bowl
of strawberry or raspberry jam with a coffee spoon and cold water was
served as refreshmentsThe jam was called "DULCHETZ" I belive it was
derived from the Romanian "DULCE" which means sweet or" DULCEATA"
sweet jam
Marcel Spiegler



From: <mailto:venivici_at_rogers.com>Andrew Halmay
Date: 7/1/2008 1:36:24 PM
To: <mailto:czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: [Cz-L] missing relatives

This is ironic. Through Jewish Gen I found a picture of my
grandmother's grave in Czernowitz but in the meantime, half my
relatives in America in the last 15-20 years have disappeared.

Of those who should still be living: Leon Besner, early to mid
eighties, of New York, may have lived on Long Island.
Jackie Adrian, mid-sixties, nee Solloway, married to Chuck Adrian,
both former teachers of Monsey, NY. My cousin, Ruth Solloway,
Jackie's mother had moved to Florida and died there. The Adrians
might have also moved to Florida but I've not been able to find any
trace of them. They had two or three children.
If by some chance any of you happen to know of them, I would be
deeply grateful to catch up with them. Thanks in advance.

Andy Halmay

P.S. Steven Lasky thought some of you might have an answer to the
following: Was it a practice in Czernowitz to finish a meal with
some jam and cold water as a form of desert?
My mother told me a funny story about my dad in this connection. He
had come to Czernowitz from Arad around 1922 to represent Baron von
Neumann's textile mills. My grandmother had rented him a room. He
was invited to eat with grandmother, mother and my aunt Hilda. The
girls were still in their teens.
At the end of the meal they passed around a small serving dish with
strawberry or raspberry jam (confitur?) and he was supposed to help
himself to one or two spoons and pass the dish forward. Being
Hungarian and not knowing this tradition he set the serving dish down
in front of himself and started spooning up the sweet stuff. They
watched him with disbelief. Eventually he stopped and said, "I'm
sorry, but I don't think I can finish this," and they then burst out
in laughter. I've come across this practice nowhere else.
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