RE: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz

Mimi, acording to my mother's brother (Dr Krattenstein from Radautz) there
was a "sidur" that "went" trough the generations in the family (and he had
it before WW2) with a handwriting that for the knowledge of the coming
generation, - the origin of our family is from the Khazars. When it was told
to me I did not ask if the "sidur" belonged to the Krattenstein generations
or to the Waldhon generations. Asher Turtel

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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz
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Dear Wolf,

I very much agree with you about the attitude veteran Czernowitzers had to
new comers. We called them "Ost-Juden" and did not approve of them.
Yet I very much doubt that there were any Jews living in Czernowitz before
WW2, who's ancestors had lived there before 1778. Had there been any
Czernowitzers with this much "Yiches", in typical Czernowitz fashion, they
would have let everyone know about it.

You write that some of the family names in Galizia and Bukovina are of
Chazar origin. Would you please quote some of them, so we could check
whether in the 1998 address book, there are any people with such names.
My father as a joke always claimed that he was a descendant of the Chazars.
He based this claim on his high cheekbones and great liking for horses, not
on any known ancestors. To me he always looked perfectly Jewish.

Gmar Chatimah Tova,

Mimi

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