Re: [Cz-L] The old cemetery.

Hello Dale,

I cannot help with the meaning of "pechelmacher", but what is now called
Sadagora, was called by the Romanians "Sadagura", in Yiddish - "Sadegereh",
pronounced similarly to "Matzeveh" and in German Sadagora.

Mimi

On 10/30/10 8:28 AM, "Dale Prince" <daleprince_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> On the subject of professions of our Czernowitz ancestors: what is a
> pechelmacher?
>
> An elderly cousin, now gone, told me that my grandfather and his uncle, when
> they first arrived in the U.S., worked as pechelmachers. This is some sort
> of garment work. Piecework?
>
> This cousin, by the way, like other elderly relatives pronounced our home
> village as Sadigera (the Yiddish way, I gather), not Sadagora.
>
> Dale Prince
> Kensington, Maryland
> Currently in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
> BURGER, FROM, EDELSTEIN, FOCKE
>

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