Re: [Cz-L] many thanks

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Dear Jessica and Cz.-List members,

There is beginning to be in Chernivtsi a recognition of the importance
of the Jewish heritage of the city. Not only the memorial plaque
to Traian Popovici and the Jewish museum, both of which are Jewish
initiatives, but also the Yiddish inscription on the border-stones
of the pavement of the Herrengasse and the emphasis on the former
Jewish culture of Chernivtsi as seen in the recent advertisements for
visiting the city.

All the best,

Mimi

> Many heartfelt thanks to Alfred, Berti, Arthur and Edgar who put
> their shoulders to the wheel and helped to "find" my family's
> Czernowitz streets, with all the name changes and with fabulous
> photos. For those of us who have never lived or yet visited
> Czernowitz in person, it truly "takes a village" to make our family
> history come to life.
> The photos that Arthur sent paint quite a vivid, honest and rather
> painful picture of the disparities between old and new (or recently
> reconstructed) parts of the city, and also between the central city
> and the Jewish quarter even today. One might imagine that in America
> and in some other parts of Europe the Jewish Quarter might be
> preserved as a historical attraction (though of course not all Jews
> would embrace this idea), complete with people dressed in old
> costumes and giving talks about the culture as it once existed, as in
> the New York Tenements museum. But that would require widely and
> respectfully acknowledging that the culture and its people did exist
> and it would require a wish to perpetuate their memory and history --
> all of it. Maybe some day, even in Czernowitz....! The Jewish Museum
> and the Popovici plaque, and the efforts to restore the cemetery, are
> major steps toward recognition.
>
> Again, thanks. Jessica

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