RE: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse and the Jewish Museum in Chernivtsi

Miriam,
You are very nice person, but your views are very mistaken and may be dangerous for Jewish people.
I do not know what happened 65 years ago( I am only 62 years old), but I know what was going on from
1955 (went to school on Turkish street - not a Jewish school) till 1979 when we left Chernovtsy for
America. There was no day when I had no a fight with Ukrainians, because they call me or my friends -
Stinging Jew. I was tall and strong to fight back but most of Jewish boys and girls -could not.
100,000 of us would not leave the city, that we all loved, if not for Anti-Semitism in the everyday life.
My wife was working in preventive dentistry in the school and small children refused to be servered by her
because of her nationality and openly stated that. The principal of the school agreed with 12 year old boys.
Manager of HR refused to accept my job application because I am one of the Moshe Dayan (Israel general)people,
as he stated it straight in my face. One of the top manager(Ukrainian) expressed openly to the group of people,
some of them Jewish that over his dead body he will hire Sharfsteins kind. Many years later when Soviet Union
is gone and people in Chernovtsi had nothing to eat because of no jobs, this person emigrated to Israel.
You were leaving in US, we were there.
With all respect.

Yefim Rabinovich
NYC

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To: fred love; cornel fleming; HARDY BREIER; Irene Silverblatt
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Poetry on the Herrengasse and the Jewish Museum in Chernivtsi

Irene, Helen, Cornel and I, describe what we have experienced in Chernivtsi
in recent years, you Fred, write about what happened more than 65 years ago.
The properties have not been returned to the Romanians who left, the Germans
who left or the Poles and Ukrainians who left Czernowitz. Not only Jews are
affected.

The Tempel should be restored by the Romanians and Germans who set it on
fire and the Soviets who blew up the dome.

Can I guarantee that there is not a single Anti-Semite in Chernivtsi? No.
But I also have not put on rosy tinted glasses, when I say that I have not
encountered a single indication of Anti-Semitism. And as I wrote before,
people I met, who knew I was Jewish, have been friendly, kind and helpful
to me. I have visited Chernivtsi, nine times in recent years and never
encountered any Anti-Semitism.

I am old enough to remember the war years and my experiences then, are not
forgotten, but the past is the past and the present is the present

The statue of the Kaiser was given to the city as a present.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no memorial to either Bandera or
Petlura in the city. If Chmielnitzki is revered, it is because he fought the
Poles, not because he killed the Jews. Insensitive, but not different from
what other countries and cities do for their national heroes.

Napoleon killed Russians and set Moscow on fire, yet the French have lots of
memorials to him.

Mimi

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