AW: [Cz-L] Origin of our Czernowitz families

Mimi,

Maramures was not a part of Galizia, it belonged to the Hungarian part of
Austro-Hungaria, it is in the very north of today's Romania, bordering the
Transkarpatia region of Ukraine. Sighet is also in the Maramures region. Elie
Wiesel was born in Sighet.

Alex

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> Von: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> An: "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, den 28. Oktober 2010, 15:50:24 Uhr
> Betreff: [Cz-L] Origin of our Czernowitz families
>
> I would like to add what I know about the origins of my family to the data
> about the origins of the families of Cz.-List members.
> One set of great-grandparents were named Israel and Pesel Steinmetz, were
> both from Marmorosh (Maramures) and moved to Czernowitz in 1880. Their
> ancestors presumably came from about 30km north of Sighet, from the village
> of Dubove. I do not know whether that region was considered part of Galizia.
> Some of their ancestors had lived in the 18th century in Prague and can be
> traced back to the scholar and chief rabbi of Prague, Ezikiel Landau.
> Another set of great-grandparents, Mordechai and Rachel Fruchter, moved in
> about 1879, to the village of Klivodyn, north of Czernowitz, from Stanislav,
> now named Ivano Frankivsk.
> The third set of great-grandparents, Hersh and Sara Reifer, lived in the
> village of Davideni, south of Czernowitz. I do not know whether they were
> born there, but know that they already lived there before 1870.
> The fourth set of great-grandparents, Hersh and Gittel Resch or Reisch,
> lived in the village of Revna, west of Czernowitz. I do not know when they
> settled there or where they came from.
>
> It is fair to assume that all Jewish people who had German surnames, had
> lived under German or Austrian rule at the end of the 18th century.
> From this I deduct that my Resch ancestors, might have come to the vicinity
> of Czernowitz from the old kingdom of Romania or from Besarabia.
> They also looked more Semitic than the other great-grandparents.
>
> Mimi
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