Re: [Cz-L] Chernowitz Day Celebrations.(Video)

Hardy,

You frequently point us to photographs taken currently in Czernowitz and
accessible on various websites. Thank you for doing so.
On the other hand, your interpretations of these photographs and what you
suppose, they mean to us, former Jewish residents of Czernowitz and their
descendants, I often find unfounded and objectionable.

Chernivtsi is part of Ukraine and it is only reasonable and to be accepted,
that Ukrainian Holidays should be celebrated and when any national or city
holidays are celebrated, that they should be celebrated in Ukrainian
national costume and with typical Ukrainian food. This is not an expression
of exclusion against Jews, Romanians, Poles or Russians who live in the
city.

I have been to Czernowitz/Chernivtsi once or twice a year, every year since
2003. I am as worried about and sensitive to Anti-Semitism as any Jew, yet I
have never encountered any in Chernivtsi. Quite the opposite, local non
Jewish people have helped and assisted me both in my personal searches and
projects and in my endeavours to have the memorial plaque to Traian Popovici
put up and in restoring the Jewish cemetery. Complete strangers have invited
me to their homes and been hospitable and nice. Quite a few other members
of this list have visited Chernivtsi in recent years and none of them have
mentioned encountering anti-Semitism.

So please stop groundlessly accusing the current people and administration
of Chernivtsi of being anti-Semitic and ridiculing or criticizing everything
they do.

Mimi

On 10/4/10 5:54 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> http://info.kp.km.ua/images/fbfiles/files/2_193.jpg
>
> Burgermeister Myola Fedoruk tastes bread and salt on City Day.
> I am neither right or wrong , I copy what is on the blog.
> No jewish representation here.
> But no , I am wrong , there was a Jewish representation :
> The music they played is from My Fair Lady , composed
> by Frederick Loewe who is of Jewish Viennese origin.
> I wonder if they are aware of this.
> Hardy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
> To: "'Miriam Taylor'" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "'HARDY BREIER'"
> <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 10:37 AM
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Chernowitz Day Celebrations.(Video)
>
>
>> I think Hardy may have got it wrong...I saw a rehearsal and it was for
>> Ukraine Independence day. But,they may have done it twice! Even more
>> interesting is that whatever day it was they performed in front of a
>> Soviet
>> war memorial to Western music!!!! Cornel
>>
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