Re: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz

Hi Mr.Terner, thanks for your interesting mail, about the article of.Manfred
Reifer you mentioned is not in the book "Historische Schriften" (Historic
Papers) I have the original book with a hand written "souvenier " of
Dr.Manfred Reifer from 18.4.1948.and on the first page is a facsimil , a
letter to Dr.Reifer,,,guess from who...Prof.S.Dubnow, the famous historian,
who wrote the 10 volume History of Jews...we had them in
Czernowitz,...dated, Riga, 15.3.934, in Hebrew.
Gmar Hatima Tova
Hedwig Brenner

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From: "W.A. Terner" <w.a.t-r_at_athenaeum.se>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2010 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Jewish roots in Czernowitz

> Dear Czernowitzers,
> For those in doubt about the existence of Jews in Bukowina and surrounding
> areas in earlier times ( then 1788) here some additional details:
> Dr. Manfred Reifer(Tel-Aviv) has written an article, translated by Jerome
> Silverbush, under the title: THE ERA OF THE MOLDOVIAN PRINCES.
> The material is made available by JewishGen.Inc. and can be seen on the
> internet by all those interested in the History of Jews in Bukowina. It is
> an interesting presentation of facts regarding Jewish presence as far back
> as the period 1300-1500.
> As with regard to Sephardic Jews in Poland:
> The Polish king Sigismund II Augustus (1529-72) encouraged Jewish
> Sephardic
> families to move to Poland. Most of them moved to Lvov(Lemberg) ( not so
> far
> away from Czernowitz). In 1588 Jan Zamoyski, Polish Chancellor,
> established
> a special privilege allowing Sephardic Jews to live in his own newly
> founded
> town of Zamosc. Ashkenazi's where not authorized, in the beginning, to
> settle in Zamosc.
> Documentation exists in different archives and family names can be found.
> To chose the date 1788, as proposed, as a starting point for Jewish life
> in
> the area, seems to be a bit late. For some it perhaps comes as a surprise.
> The old stories about the Kazars seem to be still in circulation. The
> subject remains for many a very sensitive one. Checking the telephone
> registers in Czernowitz as well as in the US and elsewhere will have to
> wait, perhaps for the next generation. The names are and will still be
> there.
> GMAR CHATIMA TOVA,
> Wolf ( W. A.Terner, Stockholm, Sweden).
>
>

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