Re: AW: [Cz-L] All time record

Dear All
 I think we are not exactly what you might consider wealthy people (judging
by the contributions to CJCRO). But if..if ... one of us would have been
wealthy enough do you think he/she would consider of buying some property
there? I don't know the answer.
 Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "alexander rosner" <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de>; "HARDY BREIER"
<HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>; "Merle Kastner" <merlek_at_videotron.ca>;
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: AW: [Cz-L] All time record

> Hello Alex,
>
> If we all were still living in Czernowitz, chances are that we would have
> known each other, might have been neighbors, gone to the same school or
> even
> intermarried. We would have met at the market, in the Herrengasse, the
> Volksgarten, der Tempel, the theatre or in Cecina.
>
> We would not have formed this list, because there would have been no need
> to
>
> But the Jewish population of Czernowitz was never stationary, not even
> before 1938. Many Jewish families were poor and moving to America, was one
> way to improve their economic situation. Many Czernowitzer Jews left in
> the
> 1920ies because of the discrimination against Jews by the Romanian
> government. I doubt whether any Jew obtained a law or medicine degree in
> Czernowitz during that period. But many Jews moved to the city from the
> surrounding villages and small towns, as well as from Basarabia, Poland
> and
> part of Romania included in the old kingdom.
>
> I believe that most of us think of Czernowitz as having had a "unique
> cultural tradition", but we probably have different things in mind as to
> what we mean by this. I think it would be interesting to have a discussion
> on this topic. Would you Alexander and other members of the list, like to
> tell us, what they think about the cultural tradition of Czernowitz?
>
> Mimi
>

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