Dear Czernowitzer
Sadly I will side with Hardy regarding the callous disregard of Jewish past and
the present actions.
It is a new kind of genocide where Jews have been uprooted ,you erase any sign
of their presence
of their past. True there has been an exchange of population who have no ties to
the city's past.
In true style the street names have been changed, the Jewish edifices are being
used and renamed
so there is no mention of their owners. Nothing but nothing has been returned to
the Jewish community.
The Temple has been burned and desecrated it has not been restored but used
shamefully for other purposes.
Yet, Churches have and are being restored to their former glory including the
German. I would not call it
necessarily antisemitism but a calculated indifference to the Jews who gave life
to the city. As for the persons
of fame or note you never hear the Jewish Poet or Actor but a name that does not
tell the full story. They must
be Ukrainean. The indelible past of thousand of Jews who left a mark,who lived
in Czernowirz for hundreds of years
who contributed to the vibrancy, culture and life to make Czernowitz unique but
paid with their life due to a murderous
well nurtured antisemitism is there a Memorial ??? I say no will there be one
I doubt it.
The Austrian Rulers are remembered but not the Jews, they never existed it is a
figment of ones imagination
Every act to remember is done by the pitifully remnant of survivors.
It is a private act by the survivor to remember the past. Kudos to Mimi's
magnificent effort but for how long???
An individual currently would be polite and friendly one would not expect
otherwise it is a different time and different circumstance
but that should not detract from the fact that the city authorities do show a
callous calculated disregard of the Jews
in Czernowitz past and present. Antisemitism in a new dress???
Juden aus dem Auge aus dem Sinn, Czernowitz widmet sich nur fuer Ukraina hin
Jews out of sight out of mind, Czernivcy dedicates only for Ukraine.
Fred.Weisinger
----- Original Message ----
From: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: Irene Silverblatt <irene.silverblatt_at_duke.edu>
Cc: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Sent: Wed, 6 October, 2010 12:57:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse
I am happy to hear this.
How many Jewish poets attended?
How was the Holocaust exposed ?
How was the Cz. Jewry represented ?
Hardy
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