Re: AW: [Cz-L] A short history of Czerowitzer Jews.

This again is lengthy, and may interest only a few of you, but I think that
it proves a point.

Where we came from:

I happen to know where some of my Czernowitz ancestors came from:
 
My earliest ancestor whom I know about, was Rashi, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki of
Troyes, who was murdered in 1105 by crusaders. At that time, many Jews lived
in southern France and in the Rhineland areas of Germany. As these areas
became more and more anti-Semitic and Jews were expelled from town after
town, they eventually ended up finding a temporary safe haven in Poland,
where they were protected by the laws and charters enacted by Casimir the
Great (1333 - 1370). Despite these laws and charters, the oppression of Jews
continued sporadically and reached its height in the Chmielnicki Cossack
rebellion of 1648. Persecution of and Pogroms against Jews continued.
In 1664 the theological students of Lvov attacked and murdered the local
Jews. In 1758-59 a ritual murder accusation was brought against the Jews of
Poland. After the partition of Poland, those Jews who found themselves under
Russian rule were subjected to even worse restrictions than the Jews who had
lived in Russia earlier. In Warsaw there was a pogrom in 1860.

Next I find one of my ancestors and descendant of Rashi, Ezekiel ben Judah
Landau, better known as the "Noda bi-Yehudah" in the town of Opatow in south
central Poland. From there he moved in 1755 to Prague, where he was
appointed as chief rabbi and eventually councilor to Maria Theresa on Jewish
affairs. Rabbi Landau's grandson, Meir Landau married the granddaughter of
another Jewish scholar, Yehudah Kahana (ca. 1740­1819), author of Kuntres
ha-sefekot and settled in the vicinity of Sighet in Maramures (Marmoros in
Hungarian). Their daughter Jutta Ruchel was my great-great-grandmother.
It was Jutta Ruchel's daughter Pesel, who moved to Czernowitz in 1879 or
1880. Of Pesel's 6 children, one, my grandfather, stayed in Czernowitz and
died there in 1940. One moved to Radauti, one moved to Budapest, two moved
to Vienna and one moved to Oradea Mare. I have some of their correspondence,
some of it in German and some of it in Yiddish.

I know little of my other ancestors, all my other grandparents were born in
small villages in the vicinity of Czernowitz. As far as I know in all except
one case, their parents had been born in the same villages. The one
exception were my maternal grandmother's parents, who had lived in Stanislav
before they settled in Klivodyn.

Mimi

On 9/6/10 5:41 AM, "alexander rosner" <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de> wrote:

> A reply to HARDY's mail as to where we came from, ( all based on speculation
> )
>
> We know that the Ashkenazim generally (not only the Jews of Bukowina)
> originated
> in the Rhine valley and surrounding areas and Yiddish is actually a derivation
> ofmedieval German.
>
> When I'm asked where I came from I usually answer: Czernowitz, but after my
> emigration from there I finally landed in Cologne, in the Rhine Valley,
> just to discover that this city and this area with the help of some
> imagination
> could have been the place where my forefathers once lived.
>
> As the place of the oldest known Jewish community north of the Alps it is more
> and more discovering it's ancient Jewish history.
> Jews definitely came to this town in Roman times. The Roman emperor
> Constantine
> wrote two letters concerning the election of Jews into the City council and
> concerning the synagogue. Marble pieces of the synagogue's floor cover
> from a refurbishment in the 5th century were discovered.
>
> Whether the Jewish population continuously lived in the town from Roman times
> till late Middle Ages is not definitely known, but it looks like the location
> of the synagogue didn't change till 1349 - the year of the end of the medieval
> Jewish Cologne.
>
> http://www.museenkoeln.de/archaeologische-zone/ - unfortunately no English
> link
>
> Alex

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