Re: [Cz-L] Stumblestones

In Japanese gardens like the ones at Katsura Villa, a "princely
retreat" in Kyoto, people sometimes walked in a kind of shoe, called
geta, that required one to pay attention carefully to where and how one
stepped, especially when walking on stepping stones over little streams
and other such garden features that one finds at Katsura. When you
reach the end of a little run of stepping stones you might pause and
look up. The garden design was considered to receive your gaze at that
moment and to provide you with a composed landscape evoking images from
a classic of Japanese literature, The Tales of Genji.

Perhaps a more meditative precedent for the darker "stumblestones" . . .

Eytan
Eytan Fichman

-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: Jerome Schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>; Czernowitz
<czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:16 am
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Stumblestones

Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

The messages from Christian and Lilian Madfes and the interest shown
by many members of our list in the Stumblestones ( "Stolpersteine")
have convinced me that this matter should be discussed with Mr. Kylynych
on a joint basis for all of us. Someone could collect the names of
all those who want to have a family member commemorated and once we know
how many of us are interested, could write Mr. Kylynych, tell him this
and request further information.

The economic situation in th
e Ukraine and in Chernivtsi is very bad.
By having these stones inscribed and placed as described, we would both
commemorate the names of relatives and friends who died in the Holocaust
and at the same time help the city, when it badly needs our help.

Mimi



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