Re: [Cz-L] Fwd: Jonas and Josephine EDELSTEIN from Czernowitz

I object to calling Czernowitz a "black joke". If you must interpret the
name as half Slavic, half German, Witz in German also means cleverness.

Yesterday, while googling Czernowitz, I came across a very interesting
article by Fred Stambrook named:
"The Golden Age of the Jews of Bukovina 1880 - 1914".
Read it and be impressed.

Mimi

On 7/22/09 3:25 AM, "Arthur von Czernowitz" <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Bruce,
> I have read the article and what I liked is the translation of Czernowitz
>
> Czerno=Black in a Slavic language and Witz=Joke in German.
>
> Czernowitz=Black-Joke, what a name for a city!
>
> Great.
>
> Arthur
>
>

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