[Cz-L] Re: Mike's letter about former Jewish -Ukrainian relations.

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

In one of the books about Czernowitz I read, that the city street plan
was designed jointly by Ober-Rabiner Igel and the Bishop of the Ukrainian
Orthodox church. I am sorry I cannot remember his name. During world war
two, the bishop hid Jews in his palace. Someone in Israel is working on
getting him declared as a "righteous gentile" by Yad Va-Shem.

Mimi

>
> My late father told me that he had been told by his grandfather that
> there was a time when the non-Jews would stop and doff their caps to the
> Cz Uber Rebbe when they passed him in the street; and in similar
> fashion the Yiddim would stop and give a little bow to the Bishop when
> he passed by. Happier days.
>
> Mike
>
> Miriam Taylor wrote:
>
>> Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>>
>> Non-Jews who lived close to Jews, or worked for them,
>> spoke fluent Yiddish, just as Jews often spoke fluent Ruthenian.
>> It was very much a multilingual society.
>> Helen, If you want to know whether your grandfather was Jewish,
>> you could write to the archives in Chernivtsi and obtain a copy
>> of his birth certificate.
>>
>> Birth certificates of the Austrian Period, contain information
>> from which you might deduce the religion of your grandfather's parents.
>>
>> Mimi
>>
>-snip-
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