RE: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: January 05, 2011

Hardy....you know what .. Andy is so right! I look at the family photos and I miss what they had...the close extended family,the contacts with people within walking distance,the ability they had to visit within what Henry Sinnreich once referred to as "the benevolent empire" without passports or visas. As my Vienna friend Egon once said looking at a map of the EU.."We did it first and we did it better". The rooms in my family houses all lined with bookshelves...it all just adds up!!! Cornel

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From: bounce-7642435-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-7642435-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of HARDY BREIER
Sent: 06 January 2011 14:53
To: veni vici; Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: January 05, 2011

Andy ,you write:
"It is not Czernowitz but the Czernowitzers of the 1930s that I miss."

These are now 86 or more.
  Most of them in old people homes on wheel chairs with oxygen bottles.
  When you see them you wont miss them.
   You miss them in their 1930 status ?
     Use imagination...
Hardy
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From: "veni vici" <venivici_at_inbox.com>
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Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] RE: czernowitz-l digest: January 05, 2011

Hardy, you are hitting all the nails directly on the head when you say our
yearning is for our life in our youth (which happened to have been in Cz)
And that you can provide a list of a 100 towns nicer than Cz. I told one of
our members once who would have been much too young by the time she left our
town to have much of a sense of it, "You have fallen in love with the image
of a town that never existed."

I am reminded of Milt Kamen, a wonderful comedian I saw in the 1950s. He
told a little story of his love affair with New York and he quickly made
sure we understood, "Not the people." And then he descried a little
brownstone building that stood straight and stone faced in the daytime but
would come to life at night, with windows winking at him, etc. In my case,
it's the opposite. I've seen and lived in far more attractive towns with
better architecture. It is not Czernowitz but the Czernowitzers of the
1930s that I miss.

Andy Halmay,
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