[Cz-L] Bukovina-Bessarabia

Shalom Mimi,

I read with great interest your recent posting Subject: Parallel worlds (see
below).
As with all of your postings I found this one also very educational and
interesting.

If you will allow me, though, I believe you forgot to mention, the
Shteitels
north-east of Czernowitz (on the road to Khotin) though being part of
Imperial Russian Bessarabia, the Jewish population of these northern
Bessarabian towns for some reason called it Bukovina-Bessarabia (maybe you
can explain to me why?)

Anyway from personal knowledge I know that the town where my father was
born,
Klishkovitz (today Klishkovtsy, Ukraine) closer to Czernowitz than the
towns you
mentioned, had a Jewish population of much more than 50 per cent, all the
rest of the
towns on this road to Khotin (including Khotin) also had dominant large
Jewish populations.

Last year while visiting these towns I noticed that today there is not only
no Jewish population
but nearly nothing to remind the local population about the Jewish presence
there and their
contribution to these settlements. (Or how the local non-Jewish population
assisted and or
even didn't try to stop the forceful expulsion of the Jewish population
from their towns during
the SHOAH.)

Getting back to Klishkovtsy, this was one of the first if not the first
Jewish settlement from the
time it was established by the Turks as a penal colony. The first Jewish
settlers settled there
so that Jewish merchants (Polish on one side and Iranian-Iraqis on the other
side) traveling
from the Persian gulf to Poland with spices and Silk and other goodies from
the far east
would have where to spend the Sabbath.

This is why this small Klishkovtsy has two Jewish cemeteries. The first one
established with
the beginning of this settlement in the 17th century (or early 18th
century), The last burial there
was around 1880 when the new, second Jewish cemetery was established and
Jews were
buried there (except during the SHOAH) till the 1960s when the last Jew left
Klishkovtsy.

The situation of both these cemeteries is very very bad, and this is an
understatement, there
is still time to save what can be saved.

Mimi with your experience can you give me some guide lines on how to go
about it (from
A to Z). I had here in Israel a group of High School pupils that were
willing to volunteer and
start "the ball rolling," but because of lack of funding I am afraid it will
not be this summer.

Any assistance will be deeply appreciated.

Aizic Sechter
Israel

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "W.A. Terner" <w.a.t-r_at_athenaeum.se>
Cc: "owner" <Czernowitz-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Parallel worlds

> Thank you Wolf, for telling us of this new revision of history.
> We of course knew all along that Cernauti was founded by the Romans
> or their descendants, the Romanians. That is why the city has this name.
> Czerne or czorne means black in both Latin and Romanian.
>
> In more recent times, the city was part of Romania for 25 long years.
> In all its long history, it was never part of Israel or Judea.
>
> According to the 1910 Austrian census about 33% of the population was
> Jewish.
> According to the same census, 18% of the population was Romanian.
> Even in Suceava, Radauti, Gurahumora and Siret, the Jewish population
> exceeded the Romanian one. Ce Scandal! Che infamia!
>
> So, in their wisdom, the victors of WW1 created Romania Mare.
> According to the 1930 Romanian census, the total Romanian population
> of greater Romania was 12 981 324 and the Jewish population was 728 115.
> According to estimates, in Cernauti, there lived about 42 500 - 46 000
> Jews
> and only about 30 000 Romanians.
>
> Clearly these estimates must be wrong, therefore the Jewish population
> must be left out of any history of the city.
>
> Mimi
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