Re: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse

 On Celans statue the word Jewish does not appear ?
   Accidentally ?
    Neither on the plate to Meerbaum or Auslander or Schmidt.
     You may overlook it, I do not.
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 5:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse

> Why do you assume that the attendees or the organizers at the Meridian
> Poetry Festival did not want to acknowledge Paul Celan's Jewishness? Why
> do
> you imply that they do not care that thousands of Jews died in
> Transnistria?
>
> During the poetry festival there was a feature about the "Tempel".
> According to research being done at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, in
> Czernowitz there are more memorials to the well known Jews of the city
> than
> there are in any other city in the Ukraine. In the Herrengasse the edging
> stones are inscribed with the word Czernowitz in Yiddish. On the
> Ringplatz,
> close to city hall, there is an inscription that Chernivts is a sister
> city
> with Natzereth Ilit in Israel.
>
> The people who currently live in Chernivtsi, did not send the Jews to
> Transnistria. They were most of them not even born, then. And it was not
> even the Ukrainians, it was the Romanians who sent the Jews to
> Transnistria.
> As I wrote you before, at Yad Vashem there are more Ukrainians inscribed
> as
> righteous among the nations than members of any other nationality.
>
> If veterans of WW2 are honored in Chernivtsi, do you have to make fun of
> the
> proceedings?
>
> Mimi
>

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