Re: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse

I would like to add to Cornel's list of facts which show that
Czernowitz/Chernivtsi is not currently an Anti-Semitic city.
SVIT Ukraine (certainly not a Jewish organization) has sent volunteers to
work on clearing the Jewish cemetery, every year for the last three years.
Each year a local Ukrainian young woman has joined the volunteers and worked
with them. Only one Jewish young man, one year joined the volunteers and his
non Jewish friend joined with him. Except for two members of this list, no
Jewish person, ever took part in these work-camps, not from abroad and not
from the local population.

The number of people living currently in Czernowitz is about 200 000.
The number of Jews living currently in Czernowitz is about 1500.
Yet one of the council members is Jewish, he obviously was not voted in just
by the Jews.

As far as returning buildings which once were Jewish community buildings, to
the current Jewish community: The German house was not returned to the
Germans, the Polish house was not returned to the Polish community, the
Romanian house - to the Romanian house - to the Romanian community. So it is
not, that we were singled out.

Had it been up to me, I certainly would have preferred to call, what was
once the Judengasse, Shalom Aleichem street, to Jews' street.

Mimi

On 10/6/10 5:37 AM, "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:

> Fred....I hear what you say,but I must disagree with much of it. Restitution
> is not a local decision but a national government one. Czernowitz Ukrainians
> initiated the Jewish Museum work. During the Poetry Festival they put a
> light-image of the Tempel on to the current building.There are inscriptions
> and plaques in Hebrew and Yiddish.There is a Jewish presence on the elected
> City Council.In all my visits I have NOT found any evidence of
> anti-Semitism,quite the reverse.On one visit to the University we met a
> post-grad student who was very helpful and we then had an invitation to the
> home of her parents who wanted to "hear more of the story of the people who
> made our city what it is". Rav Kofmanski's synagogue ,established in
> 1923,survived intact and functioned and still does,and I know of no similar
> survival anywhere else in Nazi Europe.There is a very highly-regarded Jewish
> school. Czernowitz is twinned with an Israeli town.And the current
> Czernowitzers are Ukrainian,so why would anybody expect them to have German
> street names??? All the people I met there knew Celan,Auslander etc were
> Jewish....but harping on their religious affiliation is not exactly
> vital...would you refer to Shakespeare as"that Catholic or Church of England
> or whatever" playwright??? I could go on..but that will do for a start!!
> Cornel

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