Re: [Cz-L] Jewish Czernowitz

You, Hardy, and we all have nostalgia of the city and the environment in
which we were born and lived a pleasant life; this is natural. However, you
have nostalgia after the Jewish Czernowitz, and this is, in my opinion, a
totally different story, since it relates to the undefined concept of
Judaism, with its many faces, and is nostalgia after a place, a territory,
which the rabbinic Judaism, the foundation of our particular culture and it=
s
concrete symbols, has ideologically forsaken and physically abandoned the
territorial concepts. After the Temple=92s destruction, the land lost its
importance and was replaced by the Jewish culture. Our books became the
=93portable=94 Holy Land. Yes, we kept alive our nostalgia for it, but in
reality we learned to live without it. Lately, the majority of our people,
abandoned the Jewish culture and seem to give more or the entire
significance of Judaism to the concrete territory; however, the result of
this re-transformation is still impossible to envisage from many aspects,
practical and cultiral. Hence, let us maintain our nostalgia for the good
life of our youth, for the special cultural and social atmosphere at the
time of our early intellectual and cultural development, and that is motive
of my two visits to Czernowitz.

My thoughts may not be welcome by some readers, but I think we agreed that
everyone should express freely and frankly his thoughts, without any effort
to influence - and definitely not to try imposing them on - others.

Paul/Pessach Heger

The phrase =93Let us=94 is just a manner of expression, and does not implic=
ate
any suggestion of advice or persuasion.

2010/11/15 HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>

> What is left of Jewish Czernowitz ?
> A cinema Temple ? a Groisse Shil storage place ?
> Jewish houses , jewish shops, jewish riches, jewish paupers,
> jewish speech, jewish food, jewish songs and jewish soul...
> Gone with the wind.....
> Only one place is still ours - the Zelenaya street Zwintar.
> 30 acres of surface and six feet down. And above surface all the
> headstones the mausoleums .
> This is Jewish Czernowitz .
> For the time being.
> Hardy
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