Re: [Cz-L] josef burg

Sorry Mimi,
Until 1944 the Russian name was Cernovitsy
  Can easily be written Chernovitsi.
(until 1944: ??????????, translit. Chernovitsy)
Hardy

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Eytan Fichman" <fichblue_at_aol.com>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] josef burg

> Thank you Eytan for the information. The obituary for Josef Burg is OK
> except for the fact that the author, again and again refers to Czernowitz
> as Chernovitsi.
> In no language and at no time did the city have this name.
> I would have expected better from the NY Times.
> Das ist eine Gemeinheit!
>
> Mimi
>
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