Re: [Cz-L] Judenstadt

Dear Yefim,

Where did you emigrate to ?

I am list member, born in Vienna, to a family that left Bukovina shortly
prior to WW1. But it was Czernowitz from where my grandparents (Hendel and
Josef Rosner) had been sent to Transnistria (The other side of the Bug) {Who
can explain to me what does that mean?} never to return.

I follow with great interest the correspondence of all list members. I also
wonder, and cannot understand, how, and why, many list-friends use the term
"Unser Czernowitz", and keep declaring their love to a city that has (as I
stated once before) vomited them. Sometimes I get the impression, that a few
"Czernowitzers" are about to pack their suitcases, and return to their place
of youth. Do you have an answer for me?

I visited my city of birth - ("Wien, Wien nur du allein"...: as the famous
song says) 10 years ago, and could not stand the hatred and hostility that I
felt while meeting; and talking with locals on the streets, in stores,
cafees, in the house I used to live in, etc., the moment that they
understood who I am. A JEWESS.
I went to the El-Al offices, and asked to change my original flight back
home for the next available flight (paid a lot of money for it) - and felt
so good on the plain that carried me back to Israel.
To say the truth, and nothing but the truth - I might return to Vienna once
more next year - but for one reason only: to visit my three cousins who got
stuck there.

I keep thinking about Spain, and the expulsion of the Jews from there in
1492, and how for almost 500 years no Jew returned to Spain. I think that
Jews in Spain contributed to culture, philosophy, politics and sciences at
least as the Jews in Czernowitz - but after driven out of Spain - turned
their back to their exhomeland.

Last, but not least - to all mamaliga lovers: Try to cook the cornmeal with
milk instead with water - and I am sure that you will bless me for the rest
of your lives.....

All the best - Miriam

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