Re: [Cz-L] two questions

Jessica,

My mother's family only moved to Czernowitz after WW1, so I can't help you
with direct family knowledge of life in the city at the turn of the century.
They had previously lived in Eisenau, a tiny village in South Bukovina (now
called by its Romanian name Prisaca Dornei). My mother's grandparents ran
the small grocery shop in the village. You can see a picture of it here,
possibly taken at the time my family were there:

http://community.livejournal.com/gr_czernowitz/1715726.html

The shop is the small building with a door and two windows on the left,
behind the man. I could tell you more about Eisenau, but it is Czernowitz
that you want to know about.

I have found a couple of books written at this time, which have descriptions
of Czernowitz. They are quite brief - but interesting.

AUSTRIA: HER PEOPLE & THEIR HOMELANDS

BY JAMES BAKER,

F.R.G.S.F.R.Hist.Soc., KNIGHT OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER FRANCIS JOSEPH I.,
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS MADRID.

1913

CHAPTER X

IN THE BUKOWINA

http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Places/Czernowitz/Work/baker.htm

Old Homes of New Americans
On the Easternmost Edge of Austria-Hungary
The Bukowina and Transylvania
Chapter 15

The Varied History of the Bukowins -- Its Many Rulers -- At the Window of
the Schwarzer Adler -- The Many Sights of Czernowitz--The Dangers of
Photography - Transylvania, the Switzerland of the East -- An Heroic
People -- Stanch Protestants -- The Eccentricities of the Old Nobles -- A
Bit of Dry Humor -- Advice to the American Globe-Girdler.

http://www.iarelative.com/oldhomes/chap_15.htm

Then there is a fascinating and important paper which discusses the position
of Jewry in Czernowitz in considerable depth. Among other things it goes
into the language question in great detail. Highly recommended.

Jewries in Galicia and Bukovina, in Lemberg and Czernowitz.

Two divergent examples of Jewish communities in the far east of the

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Albert Lichtblau and Michael John

http://www.sbg.ac.at/ges/people/lichtblau/cape.html

I hope you find something here of interest!

Best regards and Shana Tova,

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Attiyeh" <rea_at_ucsd.edu>
To: <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 6:13 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] two questions

>I have two different questions for all the Czernowitzers with great memory
>of the past:
>
> 1) Thanks to entries from the 1936 Cz directory, I now know the address of
> my father's younger brother at that time. My question is about the
> "stadplan" area for him, which was written as "CL". All the others on the
> list were in stadplan CZ. Does anyone know where the CL neighborhood was
> in the city, what kind of neighborhood that was (I can tell that it is not
> where the affluent central Herrengasse and Hauptstrasse are), and what the
> CL initials stand for?
>
> 2) Does anyone remember stories their parents or grandparents told them
> about what Czernowitz life was like for them, perhaps between the 1870's
> to 1890's, or around 1900? I am learning so much from your own wonderfully
> written memories about life and culture during your own childhood years,
> right through the awful times of the1940's, and that helps me to "know"
> the experiences of my family who remained in Czernowitz after my father
> left for America in 1911. But I don't have any feeling for what the life
> and culture of Jewish families was like in the time of my father's
> childhood (he was born in 1893) and that of his older siblings and his
> parents. Did your parents and grandparents talk about their own childhood
> and young adult years? Were their experiences growing up very different
> from yours? Had they all been born in Czernowitz, or, if not, where had
> they come from, where had they been born?
>
> Jessica Falikman Attiyeh, San Diego, CA
>
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