RE: [Cz-L] A Novel and a Memoir about life in Czernowitz/Bukovina

HI..have the books and they are well-worth reading. Cornel

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Subject: [Cz-L] A Novel and a Memoir about life in Czernowitz/Bukovina

At the IAJGS conference in Los Angeles today, a book and a couple of
films about Czernowitz were mentioned and recommended. I'd like to
add two more books, by Gregor Von Rezzori who was a
Czernowitz-born-and-raised journalist, novelist, memoirist and more.
They are "The Snows of Yesteryear" and "Memoirs of an Anti-Semite"
(Rezzori is not himself an Anti-Semite, but his father was), both
originally written in German, and now available on Amazon.com for
just a few dollars if you order used copies. I've just received them,
but have not yet read them. However reviews are intriguing. Re
"Memoirs...", a review says: "In a succession of short stories Von
Rezzori, a Roumanian aristocrat, will shed light on the too close
co-habitation of Jews and Gentiles in the Old Europe of the 20th
century. Uncomfortable, witty, elegant you will enter a world where
where outrage will fly like bickerings of unruly sibblings. A
delight, perhaps a masterpiece."

In "Snows..." a reviewer says Rezorri "writes of the five people who
shaped his life and were entwined with the life and culture of
Bukovinia; a country that was a crossroads for east and west; that
had absorbed all the mish mash of languages and customs that had
passed through and decided to stay.... It makes you realize that-as
long as it doesn't boil over into holocaust, racial and social
frictions are part of what makes humanity click."

I hope these are as good as they sound. Has anyone in the Cz.L read his
work?

Jessica Falikman Attiyeh, San Diego, California

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