Re: [Cz-L] Ringplatz Poster

Mimi,
  Steinberg street is the old Heinegasse and is on the Ehpes.
  Popovici street is named after Omelian Popovici -Ukrainean president of
Bukovina 1918.
  Many of the plates and statues have been put up by outside Czernowitz
organizations
   assisted by the city - you know how .
  Sholem Aleichem street was given to the Judengasse in order not to have a
street
   belonging to the Jews. It was Judengasse and not Judischegasse.
     This was done by the Soviets but left unchanged - many others were
renamed.
    Even the Antonescu regime did not change this name. Strada Evreiasca.

Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Berti Glaubach" <berti_at_netvision.net.il>; "HARDY BREIER"
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Czernowitz" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Ringplatz Poster


> Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>
> Dear Berti and all members of the Cz.-List,
>
> I agree with Berti's ideas, as to what we should and should not
> expect from the city of Chernivtsi;
>
> We, and/or our parents and grandparents lived there once, but we do not
> live
> there any longer. The current inhabitants of the city have the right
> to decide how to celebrate this anniversary and it seems quite sensible,
> to highlight the agreement signed by Alexandru cel Bun with the Polish
> merchants, since it is this document which is the basis for the
> anniversary
> celebrations.
>
> Nor should we blame the public display of this document, on Ukrainian
> chauvinism. Alexandru cel Bun was a Moldavian/Romanian prince.
>
> When I looked for memorial plaques on the city streets, I found among
> others, one to Eliezer Steinbarg, one to Sidi Tal, to Moshe Altman,
> to Ciprian Purumbescu, to Eminescu, to Erwin Chargaff, all of these either
> Jews or Romanians. There is a monument to Paul Celan. If the current
> inhabitants of Chernivtsi, were so self-centered and xenophobic as some
> would have us believe, they would not have put up these plaques.
>
> There is in Chernivtsi a street named after Sholem Aleichem, another named
> after Eliezer Steinbarg. (This last one, may be new, I saw it now on my
> last
> visit, but do not find it on the "ehpes" street translator.) There is also
> a street named after Popovici. This is not disregard for Jewish culture or
> history.
>
> Mimi
>
>> I generally enjoy Hardy's wit, but sometimes have to make an effort not
>
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