[Cz-L] Tony Judt on Czernowitz

Tony Judt in the New York Review of Books March 25:

"I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances, =
affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another =96 =
where cosmopolitanism is not so much an identity as a normal way of =
life. Such places once abounded. Well into the twentieth century there =
were many cities comprising multiple communities and languages =96 often =
mutually antagonistic, occasionally clashing, but somehow coexisting. =
Sarajevo was one. Alexandria another. Tangiers, Salonica, Odessa, Beirut =
and Istanbul all qualified =96 as did smaller towns like Chernovitz and =
Uzhhorod. By the standards of American conformism, New York resembles =
aspects of these lost cosmopolitan cities: that is why I live here."=
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