Re: [Cz-L] Audio One Hundred Years Since Czernowitz MP3

I thought the following excerpt from a New York Times article,

"With Demise of Jewish Burial Societies, Resting Places Are in Turmoil"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/nyregion/03bury.html?em
By PAUL VITELLO
Published: August 2, 2009

might be of interest in the context of our discussion of cemetery care
and maintenance:

"When Mrs. Marmor visited her deceased husband’s cemetery plot in
Flushing, Queens, one afternoon, she found that someone had been
freshly buried in the spot next to his, where she had planned to rest
someday. No one could tell her why.

Strange and wrenching discoveries like that have sprung up repeatedly
in Jewish communities over the past few decades as families have
discovered that the cemetery properties where they expected to be
buried among spouses, children and parents are caught in a legal knot
that no one can untangle.

The reason: the Jewish burial societies that sold the gravesites no
longer have administrators. Founded by the immigrant ancestors of the
people caught in this bind, the societies, in effect, have died."

Eytan

Eytan Fichman, AIA
B.Arch., M.Arch., Ed.M

-----Original Message-----
From: Tal Moshe Zwecker <tal.zwecker_at_gmail.com>
To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Sent: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 6:44 am
Subject: [Cz-L] Audio One Hundred Years Since Czernowitz MP3

http://www.cjh.org/videos/20080910Czernowitz.mp3

A symposium on the one-hundredth anniversary of the Czernowitz Yi
ddish =
Conference of 1908, which attracted writers, Bundists, Zionists, and =
other prominent thinkers from Europe and America to discuss language =
planning, the status of Yiddish, and its role for the Jewish people.
The =
conference proclaimed that Yiddish was a national language of the
Jewish =
people and called for the founding of an institute of Yiddish, which =
came to pass in 1925 with the founding of YIVO.

Distinguished panelists Cecile Kuznitz (Bard College) and Jess Olson =
(Yeshiva University) will place the conference in its historical
context =
and discuss the current role of Yiddish in Jewish life.

Moderator: Paul Glasser, Associate Dean of the Max Weinreich Center.

 From http://www.yivoinstitute.org/index.php?tid=3D165&aid=3D555

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