Re: [Cz-L] UK Czernowitzers...

Theo...

First of all I'm encouraging you to resend your interesting mail once again, using plain text, in order to make it easily accessible to the entire group.

Then I think you would like to know, that your grandfather Siegfried Hessing was the editor of a famous Festschrift at the instance of Benedict Spinoza's 300 anniversary, published by Carl Winter in Heidelberg in February 1933. Among the coauthors you'll find extremly prominent personalities, such as Albert Einstein, Siegmund Freud, Martin Buber, Simon Dubnow, Romain Rolland, Arnold Zweig, etc. Czernowitz daily newspaper, edited at

http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.com/

reported on that editorial event by an article, dated 05.02.1933. Please go to the Transcriptions & Archives section

http://dertag.forenworld.com/index.php

entering "Hessing" in the search engine and you'll find another two articles, dated 14.04.1932 and 23.08.1932. I'm currently on a research journey in Galicia and Bukovina, but upon my return to the Netherlands end of May, I'll be pleased to send copies of the respective articles to you.

BTW, the Festschrift "Spinoza. Dreihundert Jahre Ewigkeit" is still available in different antiquarian bookshops today. I do hope these data will be helpful to you.

Warmest wishes!

Edgar Hauster
from Edgar's iPad

Am 01.05.2011 um 13:49 schrieb theo hessing <theo_hessing_at_hotmail.com>:

> Dear Czernowitzers=2C
>
> My name is Theo Hessing. I live in London=2C UK. My father=2C=20
> Leonard Hessing=2C was born in Czernowitz in 1931 to two Jewish parents=20
> Perle Hirsch and Siegfried Hessing. I discovered the http://czernowitz.ehpe=
> s.com/ website after=20
> attending a talk by Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer in London about a=20
> year ago for the publication of their book 'Ghosts of Home'. I am=20
> writing to you today in the hope of requesting some assistance. I=20
> have been interested for some time in finding out more about my family's
> history in Czernowitz=2C whether I have any remaining living relatives (I =
> know I have some distant cousins living in Tel Aviv=2C but I have no idea h=
> ow to contact them) or
> if there are individuals still alive who remember either my father or=20
> grandparents. However=2C it is not until now that I have had the=20
> opportunity to start researching in earnest. I am currently studying=20
> documentary film=2C and would like to make a short film about Czernowitz as=
> it=20
> exists in the memories of members of the Jewish diaspora living here in the=
> UK . This is especially important to me as I am no longer able to ask
> either my father or his parents about our own family history there=2C as=20
> they all passed away a number of years ago. I am not entirely sure yet=20
> of the exact scope of the film=2C nor its narrative=2C but I think these=20
> will become apparent as a result of talking to people here in London=20
> with a connection to Czernowitz. I would therefore be very interested to he=
> ar from anyone in the UK either whose parents lived in Czernowitz or=2C eve=
> n better=2C who themselves lived in Czernowitz. (Of course=2C if you do not=
> live in the UK but recognize the names 'Hessing' or 'Perle Hirsch' it woul=
> d also be wonderful to hear from you!)
>
> I would be greatly indebted for any assistance you could provide.
> Thank you so much. I look forward to hearing from you.
> Best wishes=2C
> Theo.
>
> [Theo: Please post in Plain Text -- instructions are in the footer of this
> message. This saves us editing time and avoids all the extraneous characters
> that appear in the message above. Thanks --the moderators]

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