The old cemetery.
Yes ,this was some 30 years before the Habsburgs.
Do we have relatives there ? You will never know because the stones
are gone and the names were old Hebrew no-surname period.
The" Grunberg "and "Rosenthals" names were acquired later .
Here like many in the Zeleny cemetery names are Meir son of Baruch or
the like.
If we were transferred to their time , could we communicate with them ?
Of course we could - their Yiddish was still not affected by the
Habsburg era Germanification but Yiddish is Yiddish.
What would we discuss ? The position of trade with the Turks ?
Some chapter of the Book ?
Jews lived in the Judenstadt in streets named by trades.
So was the Uhrmachergasse , the Watchmakers street.
The Czernowitzer Jewish watchmakers were famous in the East.
People came from near and far with their precious watches.
So were the tailors and cobblers.Then they held most of the shops.
This is why the Jews and Germans were the majority in town.
The Germans were locksmiths and carpenters.
The jews probably spoke Turkish and Polish too, for trading.
Hardy
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> Note the date on the tombstone....1740! Cornel
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