Re: [Cz-L] History

Dear All,
  Soviets , Ukrainean, Rumanians, Austrian, all hated Jews .
  I was too young to live under Austrian rule but their influence prevailed
long
  after they left.
   They built the city, almost all the houses ,public buildings churches
synagogues
  were from their period.
   Did the Austrians love Jews ? They were catholics and mostly
antisemites.
     The most notorious Nazis were Austrians.
   But in their period there was the French revolution and the 1848 Spring
of Nations
   and people woke up and demanded human rights. The Jews took advantage of
   this : Education - the best Universities of Europe were opened to them
,Vienna ,Prague
    Trade: Almost all the shops of Cz were Jewish, and much more.
     Jews paid back in loyalty ,fought the Habsburg wars ,were even nobled
as Ritters.
       Ritter( Knight) von Salomon Rabinowitch.
        Yes , under Franz Joseph I , the jews of Czernowitz had their best
time in history.
     Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
To: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Cc: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Miriam Taylor"
<mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "David Glynn" <glynn_at_spontini.co.uk>; "Czernowitz"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] History


> Dear Cornel,
> My family still lived in the "old Empire" and my mother's heart was
> Austrian to the end, My father fought in the Emperor's army.
> I don't know why but having been stationed as El Al in Vienna during
> the Eichman trial and having rented half a villa from a woman who told
> us 1) that her dead husband was a guest at the Wagner Festival 2) that
> Austria was "occupied" by the Germans, my dream of Jews having been
> freer under Austria than Rumania, I'd say "a curse on both their
> houses".
> Sorry I love my freedom too much.
> Regards, Shabbat Shalom,
> anny
>
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