RE: [Cz-L] Our origin

My parents were born in Soroki, now in Moldavia and moved to CZ after
returning from Berlin(my father) in 1945
and from Uzbekistan( my mother). German machine was destroyed and they
both survived (my father lost his parents and 7 brothers and sisters and
my mother lost the whole family). It was time to build new life.
Anyway, my father's father and his uncle before the war were known in
Soroki as "Jerusalem boys".
The story goes that they both travel to Palestine (through Odessa and
Turkey) with their wives but after few years
in the promised land, had to come back. It is how my Grandpa got a name
"Jerusalem boy".
Traveling to Palestine and back they met a lot of Jews who believed that
there was a very
large migration with Ottomans. It is what my Grandpa passed to my father
and he did to me and my brother.

Yefim Rabinovich
NYC

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Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:24 PM
To: 'HARDY BREIER'; 'CZERNOWITZ-L'
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Our origin

I think it is pretty well documented that many Cz. Jews came from the
north,
Galicia, what is now southern Poland. But I have a curious anecdote on
this
topic. Many years ago I asked an aunt whether any of the older
relatives,
who were all from Sadagora, ever said where our family had come from.
She
recalled that my grandfather (born in Sadagora about 1880) had said he
thought the family came from Turkey.

Frankly, I am skeptical of this story, but if you substitute Ottoman
Empire
for Turkey and think how close its borders in the Balkans and
southeastern
Europe came to Bukovina , it becomes a possibility. One cannot offhand
discount what (to me) look like rather Oriental designs on some of the
grave
markers in Sadagora.

Does anyone else have a family origin story like this?

Dale Prince
Kensington, Maryland
Currently in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
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