Re: [Cz-L] If we all were still living in Czernowitz

From: Isidoro Zaidman <isidoro_at_racsa.co.cr>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:27:54 -0430
To: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, fichblue_at_aol.com, alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de, merlek_at_videotron.ca, Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Reply-to: Isidoro Zaidman <isidoro_at_racsa.co.cr>

Hi Hardy Yankel forgot to add to the to say that in the FREISTADT
CZERNOWITZ, yidish was also included as an official language-
Isidoro

El 20/10/10 00:55, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> escribió:

> FREISTADT CZERNOWITZ.
>
>
>
> It is now the 10 year jubilee of the founding of the Free City of
> Czernowitz.
>
> During this period the city changed it's face completely.
>
> The Old Town was declared a World Heritage Site and was completely
>
> rebuilt to the 1938 state.
>
> The Old Town was also declared a pedestrian zone and only Fiakers are
>
> permitted- as tourist attractions.
>
> The newly opened underground crosses the City in 2 main lines:
>
> Residenz and Prut having stations at the Ringplatz where a new underground
>
> shopping center was built.
>
> The Euro is the official currency (since the City joined the EC in
> 2010).
>
> The official languages are: German , Ukrainean and Romanian.
>
> All Austrian street names are reinstated.
>
> The old Temple was rebuilt to its past glory.
>
> 20 new hotels of world fame were built and 500 Zimmers are at the disposal
>
> of the multitude of tourist who storm the city endlessly.
>
> All border controls are abolished .
>
> New four lane highways join the City with its neighbors.
>
> The newly built Paul Celan International airport can hardly handle the
> incoming
>
> traffic - most of it charters. From there the tourists are shuttled to their
> hotels
>
> on the six-lane Traian Popovici Expressway , the new circular road where
> most
>
> new hotels are located.
>
> All street bazaars have been closed.
>
> The old Cheremosh Hotel was rebuilt into a giant ultra modern duty-free
> department
>
> store.
>
>
>
> It all started in 2006 when Yankel Rabinovitch ,a born Czernowitzer
>
> came back from an old-timer reunion ,held in the city , and during a
> sleepless
>
> night came up with an idea..
>
>
>
> In 2009 the Free City Council declared him Ruler and Monarch for life
> and granted him the title:
>
>
>
> YANKEL THE FIRST OF CZERNOWITZ AND SADAGORA.
>
>
>
> Yankel took his sceptre and orb , put on his velvet robe - had another
> critical look
>
> at the pidgeons sitting on his statue in the middle of the Ringplatz and
> assumed
>
> his throne in the newly built palace , on the bombed out north side of the
> square..
>
>
>
>
>
> Then it was morning and he woke up.
>
>
>
> Hardy

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