Re: [Cz-L] World War One in Bukowina

Hi Charles,

I think that you are right about Jews from the surrounding areas moving to
Czernowitz. I too, had relatives who moved from Wiznitz to Czernowitz, but
this population movement increased in the late twenties and early thirties,
because the farms of the older generation were not large enough to be shared
by all the sons in a family and because the younger generation preferred to
live in Czernowitz.

At the same time, many Czernowitz Jews left for America, because they wanted
to improve their economic situation and others left for Vienna, Prague,
England and France, in order to have the opportunity to study, which they
were often denied under Romanian rule.

The birth rate in Czernowitz before WW1 was quite high too.
My father was one of 8 children and my mother was one of four. My father
told me of Jewish neighbors in Manasteriska, who had 18 children.

Mimi

On 10/17/10 6:40 PM, "Charles Rosner" <frenchczern1_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Mimi!
> I believe that the rapid increase in population of Cz after WW1 is not only
> due to the <immigration> of Jews from Ukraine, Russia, Rumania... Jews from
> the rest of Bukowina, who survived the war in a way or another, came to Cz and
> contributed to a large extent to this increase: 1)documents for the new
> Rumanian administration were to be delivered only in Cz, and 2) they hoped to
> be able to cope in a more friendly (Jewish) environment with this
> administration. Besides, in order to stay in Bukowina and get the Rumanian
> citizenship, they had to write a family history and prove that they were in
> Bukowina for many decades already. This process lastet for at least 2 years -
> the Wagner got the citizenship in 1920 only! Many were discouraged and decided
> to emigrate, because they couldn't get any original documents, etc. For
> example, the Rumanian confiscated the BMD registers in Wiznitz of the only
> Jewish population - I saw the code number of these registers, but
> they were not available, whereas those of other groups of population were
> there...
> Regards,
> Charles
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of
 Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed
 in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily
 the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members
 or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has
 an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a
 searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Please post in "Plain
 Text" if possible (help available at:
<http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PlainText.html>).

To remove your address from this e-list follow the directions at
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/leave.html

To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to:
owner-Czernowitz-L_at_list.cornell.edu
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Received on 2010-10-18 05:22:22