Re: [Cz-L] Ringplatz Poster

Mimi,
  Of course that the Ukraineans have the right to do in Czernowitz what they
want.
    And they use that right. They dont need our approval.
     All we can do is object . Should we shut up ?
   Until the end of the Soviet regime there was an excuse : Moscow ruled,
Moscow decided.
     For almost 20 years it is Ukrainean hegemony.No more excuses.
       If they acquiesce that the Temple continues serving as a clothes
bazaar it is
        their doing. Must we be silent too ?
         It will not change much but let them know how we feel.
           If they care how we feel.
             What can be done ? We can talk, write - not very effectively.
           The Czernowitz population of today ?
               If they wanted , they could boycott the Zhovten .
             You can see the Harry Potter film elsewhere.
                And buy your undies on Golovna.
                One week of boycott would be enough.
                    They wont do it .
                            You know why ?
                     You know why...
                                      Hardy

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
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