Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Wall street.

Cannot dicuss on the nature of the ongoing trade in Postgasse.
  I just dont know.
   But I can make a guess that the majority of the crowd was Jewish.
Hardy
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  From: Paul Heger=20
  To: HARDY BREIER=20
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  Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Wall street.

  I think that die Boerse in Postgasse was not Wall Street, but rather a =
Commodity Exchange
  . Czernowitz and its Jews were the traders of wood, livestock and =
other products for export. They knew languages and had connections.
  The people in the streets were not ;privateers -leidig-gehers, they =
were rather people who made Luft-Geschaeften, that is trading outside =
the Exchange, and many were dealing in foreign currencies. My family had =
a store in Postgasse 7 just opposite the Main Post Office and some of =
these traders of foreign exchange came in winter to warm up a bit and =
often also to hide foreign exchange when there was a rumor of a razzia. =
I remember two brothers Ostfeld, who were dealing in foreign currency at =
the Boerse, that is on the street outside it, and they were befriended =
with the family and often came into the store for above reasons.=20
  Paul/Pessach Heger
 
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