Re: [Cz-L] Jewish Czernowitz

Dear all,
We live in different places, have different lives and certainly different
opinions and that's the idea of this exchange. I certainly would NEVER ever
think of changing any ones opinion, the idea of this most pleasant
intercourse, is to exchange memories. Of course we remember Jewish life, few
of us shared Christian lives, and that's where our memories lie, therefore
we share what we know best.
Hopefully each one of us will go on!!
anny
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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

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