Re: [Cz-L] Old Jewish cemetry in Czernowitz

Sad to think that even the old Czernowitzers neglected to maintain and
preserve the old Jewish cemetery. In 1867, the new Jewish cemetery, the one
on Zelena street which we are trying to restore and maintain now, was still
new and I suppose that the ancestors of most Jewish Czernowitzers were
interred in the old cemetery. But by 1927, 60 years later, the relatives and
descendants of those interred in the old cemetery, must have been a smaller
percentage of the Jewish population or cared less to preserve the graves of
their ancestors.

Possibly they also valued the old tombstones, inscribed only in Hebrew and
decorated with traditional designs, less than the new, modern stones which
were by comparison very large and ostentatious.

Mimi

On 10/31/10 3:16 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> This is a translation of an article which appeared in the "Menorah"
> in 1927 contributed by E. Hauster:
>
> " There ,where the rails of the Main station merge into the main line
> leading to the South ,they make a slight bend.
> When the Lemberg -Czernowitz - Jassy railroad was built ( 1867 - my
> remark))
> the Jewish community of Czernowitz , stressing all its forces led a
> fierce
> battle about this slight bend.
> If the line was built in a straight line it would have cut the old
> Jewish cemetery which lies there, close to the rails, where the
> terrain starts climbing towards the town.
> Since then , the community has forgotten its dead and gravestones..."
>
> This is from 1927...!
> This is the beginning of an article analyzing the inscriptions of
> the stones...
>
> Hardy
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