Re: [Cz-L] Gregor Von Rezzori

Boycott von Rezzori ?
Who is only suspected of anti - semitism.
  What about Wilhelm Busch, William Shakespeare , Charles Dickens ?
   And our beloved Mihai Eminescu whose statue stands across the Temple ?
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Frederick Andermann"
<andermannf_at_qc.aibn.com>; <Czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Gregor Von Rezzori

>I have not read enough of Rezzori's books in order to be able to judge
> whether he was an Anti-Semite or not, but if he was, it would certainly
> bother me. What I have read of him, I did not find particularly
> interesting.
> Would I refuse to read the books of an Anti-Semite?
> Most probably, yes. After all, being a Semite, I would not enjoy them,
> but I might read them out of curiosity.
>
> As to how Jews in Czernowitz felt about Gentiles and how Gentiles felt
> about
> Jews, I disagree with Hardy.
> Not all Gentiles were Anti Semites, nor did all Jews, at all times, hate
> Gentiles.
>
> In the plebiscite at the end of WW1 Jews and Ruthenians voted together
> against annexation to Romania. The Metropolit of Czernowitz hid some Jews,
> Mayor Popovici, at least temporarily, saved about 20 000 Czernowitz Jews
> from being sent to Transnistria. From personal experience I can say that
> some Czernowitz Gentiles helped Jews during WW2 and I am sure that those I
> knew, were not the only ones.
>
> In the history of inter-ethnic relations in Czernowitz, one needs to
> separate the period of Romanian rule from the period of Austrian rule.
> And having left Czernowitz in the summer of 1945, I will not discuss how
> inter-ethnic relations might have been since then.
>
> Religion, customs, social status and language kept Czernowitzers of all
> kinds, within their ethnic groups in both periods, but it was only during
> the Romanian period, when Romanians enjoyed preferential treatment and
> Anti-Semitic laws were enacted, that antagonistic feelings came into being
> on both sides.
>
> Czernowitz Jews, like Jews everywhere, were aware of the long history of
> Anti-Semitism and therefore were cautious and suspicious in their dealings
> with Gentiles but this should not be equated with hatred.
>
> I visited some of the villages around Czernowitz, where my ancestors once
> lived and was lucky to find people who remembered them. From the way these
> villagers spoke about my great-grandfathers and my relatives, it was clear
> that they had had cordial relations.
>
> Mimi
>

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