RE: [Cz-L] Judenstadt

 We moved to United States(New York City) with my wife,two sons, my
brother and my parents.
I never travel back to Chernowitz and have no desire. No normal human
being can treat another
one, how we were treated while crossing Ukrania border and passing
through Chech republic.
It is very long story.
Yefim

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From: Elan&Miriam Lava [mailto:melava1_at_netvision.net.il]
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:06 PM
To: Rabinovich, Yefim (M RTT)
Cc: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
Subject: 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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