RE: [Cz-L] The Czernowitz Photo Album - here it is!

Dear Dale,

Thank you so much for your mail. I subscribe unreserved to your statement concerning the participation to our list and wish I could have outlined it as sensitive as you do. It's not off-topic at all, it's essential for the success of our list, that each and everyone feels at home in our group, as long she/he is interested in "genealogy and the history of the Jewish community in the Czernowitz - Sadagora area". It doesn't matter, whether it's a unique or a returning visitor and/or she/he is contributing actively, although I'm encouraging all to join the discussion; I believe that was Arthur's intention too.

BTW1: Thank you for your kind appreciation for the release of the Czernowitz directories.

BTW2: I noticed, that you're researching "Edelstein". Are you aware, that between March - October 1932 the name "Edelstein" was mentioned in min. 15 articles of the Czernowitz newspaper "Der Tag - The Day" (http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.com/)? Edelstein was at that time the Director of the Market Authority of Czernowitz and responsible for the price regulation, an existential question for that period of time. Are you related?

Thank you once again for your mail. Warmest wishes & Shalom to Erbil!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

http://hauster.blogspot.com/

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> From: daleprince_at_hotmail.com
> To: merlek_at_videotron.ca; czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu; vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] The Czernowitz Photo Album - here it is!
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:19:13 +0300
>
> Beautiful album. Thank you, Merle.
>
> And thank you for the fantastic work on the cookbook.
>
> And I would also like to say, as one who very rarely contributes to the
> discussion, how much I appreciate the posts from all the other members, as
> well as all the things this group has accomplished, especially the cemetery,
> the cookbook, the plaque, the discussions of Yiddish and Czernowitzer
> Deutsch, although these things are obviously not all equal in importance. I
> appreciate the sharing of living memory, history, perspectives, and spirit
> that takes place nearly every day. I think there must be many other quiet
> listserv members who feel the same way.
>
> As the grandson of people who emigrated from Sadagora to the U.S. over a
> hundred years ago, I do not feel I have much to contribute to the discussion
> of living memory of Czernowitz, but still it is interesting to me. Thanks
> to all the people who make this happen, Bruce, Jerome, and all the frequent
> and occasional writers such as Hardy, Mimi, Arthur (thanks for sharing your
> childhood recollections), Frieda, Andy, Charles, Hedwig, Eduard & Gabrielle,
> Edgar (thanks for all the documents! -- I found a listing for Focke, my
> g-grandmother's name), Cornel, Joanna, Jerry, Marianne, Eytan, Jessica,
> Anny, Fred, I could go on, of course.... in short everyone who writes.
>
> Arthur, you ask why some of the people do not participate in the discussion.
> There may be many reasons: busy with family and work, nothing to say on the
> subject, someone else said it first, maybe the thing one wishes to say is
> not appropriate for the list (political, off topic, etc.), online shyness,
> or some other reason. This is simply the way it is in all online
> communities. I work for the U.S. State Department, which is interested in
> using new media in outreach to foreign publics, and I have heard from
> knowledgeable people at State that the active members of any online
> community will be only a small percentage of the membership. (No surprise
> here.) You may have only 3% or 5% of the members actively contributing and
> that may not change as long as your community is open. Another larger
> percent (but less than half) will read and absorb the discussion, and yet
> another large percentage will only occasionally or even never read or use
> the information. (For example, a Facebook group with members who never
> visit the group's page.) Maybe this is a little off-topic, so I will leave
> it there. This group is quite fortunate to have such an active group of
> contributors who keep the discussion alive and draw others in, which
> enriches us all.
>
> Dale Prince
> Kensington, Maryland
> Currently working in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
> My Czernowitz/Sadagora families: BURGER/BERGER, EDELSTEIN, FROM, FOCKE,
> STARK
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