Re: [Cz-L] Our love for Czernowitz

Filled with these conceptions we fled Cz in 46.
  On a high pedestal of self conceit.
   They called us Czernoschwitzers.
     What do they know !
Hardy
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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Our love for Czernowitz

> Being the majority of the population in Czernowitz, certainly
> made our parents, grandparents and us feel good.
> But that was not the only reason for our feeling of well being
> and love for the city.
>
> When we consider the generations of Jewish Czernowitzers
> born between 1870 and 1920 it is obvious how much they were
> ahead of their parents and grandparents in wealth, education,
> political opportunities and self esteem.
> Jews were mayors of the city during the Austrian period, and
> even during the Romanian period, there were Jewish members
> of the city council, Jewish deputies to the Romanian Parliament,
> Jewish physicians and lawyers, even though, they may have had
> to study abroad.
>
> But I think that the Ukrainian,German and Romanian inhabitants
> of the city were just as proud of Czernowitz as the Jews.
> Compared to many cities of the same size, in Romania, Poland
> and Ukraine, Czernowitz was more progressive, better maintained
> and better planned.
>
> Mimi
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