[Cz-L]stories of pre-and-early-1900's

Dear Mimi --

Your "langhe megilleh" describes so well the way of life of
Czernowitzers at several economic levels, at least two of which are
likely to fit how my grandparents and some of their children (as
adults) lived. Your response, and several others, are so helpful, and
as is the way with such things, they have also generated some more
questions. I hope you can bear with me!

You wrote about several things I especially wanted to learn about,
including the health concerns of the time and the differences in
housing between poorer families and wealthier ones. My grandfather
delivered coal in a wagon, at least in the first decade of the
1900's, so I've assumed they must have been poor, but I don't know for sure.

The description of the various houses your paternal family lived in
is of particular interest to me.... I see that my own grandparents
and uncles had a number of different addresses, both for home and for
business, over the years covered by the records I've been able to
obtain. I had wondered whether that was unusual --- the moving around
so much. ...Was it a matter of "moving up" in the word, to bigger and
better places, were Jewish families frequently outsted from their
rented apartments, or did Jewish families tend to cluster in
different neighborhoods over the years? I know that my mother's
family, for example...all clustered for the first few years with
other Latvian newcomers near the docks where they'd first arrived in
the States; and later they moved a bit north, and eventually, some
years later, to the suburbs. So I wonder if a similar thing happened
to Jews coming from elsewhere into Czernowitz.

I wonder about some particular streets:
for example: 1) Treifaltigskeite (spelling?) in the 1920's, where
both my g'parents died; 2) Judengasse, Bahnhofstrasse, and Waag G. in
the 1880's and '90's, and Hauptgasse in 1895, where my father and
some of his siblings were born, and 3) Kaliczankergasse in 1890,
where Jerome's grandfather lived then -- was those fairly poor
streets/neighborhoods, or not? In particularly religious
neighborhoods, or non-religious ones? I'm still trying to figure out
whether our extended family were originally religious or not,
particularly poor, or not. My father himself was non-observant in
this country, and arrived without obvious means. But he came from a
large family in Czernowitz, -- there were 10 and maybe 11 children,
from two wives, as one died after her second or third child was born.
So I presumed that the family might have been religious --- or
perhaps it was just customary to have large families in the days
before childbirth control measures were known. What do you know about this?

You are so fortunate to have a written account from your
great-grandfather. That must be fairly rare. It is wonderful.

Again, a big thanks to you and to the several others who have written
in answer to my earlier questions, and to whom I've responded
privately. What a generous community the Cz-L is.

Shana Tovah to one and all. --- Jessica Falikman Attiyeh, San Diego

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