[Cz-L] Losing face in Czernowitz

Honor was written with a Capital H in Czernowitz.
 Irrespective of social status honor was highly evaluated.
  As students you would fight duels for a word wrongly said.
   Female virtue was sacrosanct. Moral code was strict.
    In reality a lot of debauchery was going on ,as Gabrielle points out.

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        Best description is Rezzoris book" Ein Hermelin in Tschernopol "
about
   honor and slander in pre-war Czernowitz.
    The motto of the book is the story of the ermine who will die if his
    flawless white fur is stained.

       This of course is rubbish, the ermin has more sense than that.
       Many Czernowitzer had not.
Hardy
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