Re: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz

Re Ost Juden
I would like to tell you about the attitude of the "Ost Juden" toward
the "Daitschen" as the accultured or assimilated Jews (depends on
which side of the barrier you stand).  Though one of my ancestors
came with the Ruzhiner Rebbe to Sadigura in 1842, our family  remained
 Ost Juden because of their way of life and intermarriage with more
recent emigrated Ost Juden. We spoke Yiddish, observed the rituals and
were recognizable by our exterior appearance,

We also looked down on the "Daitschen," who lived like the Goyim,
behaved immorally like them and did not know the joy of a true
exultant prayer and hope in a good God. We were proud of our Heritage,
as it is called today. Pride was an important factor of Jewish life
and an efficient defense against assimilation. Nowadays American Jews
try various ways to combat intermarriages and consequential decline of
World Jewry. I think that the main problem is the lack of pride in our
heritage, which does not have to be the fulfilment of all the
religious precepts, but we need something else to replace it. In my
opinion we posses it in our spiritual heritage, but we do not develop
it into a living, cognitive ideology  to diffuse it among the Jewish
youth. The discussion of the reasons for the failure to do it, is
another question.
I am sorry for being led unintentionally to express some thoughts not
directly linked to the issue
Paul/Pessach Heger
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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