Re: [Cz-L] Powidla & Romanians

----- Original Message -----
From: "jerry yosi" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>; "Sylvia de Swaan"
<sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com>; "fred love" <fredhotman_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "frieda tabak"
<frieda_tabak_at_yahoo.com>; "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>;
"CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Powidla & Romanians

SORRY, ONE OF MY GRANDCHILDREN SENT THIS UNFINISHED LETTER YOU'LL EXCUSE ME
BECAUSE I HAVE AT THE END A POINT I WOULD LIKE TO STRESS.
> Well, you started it and I guess it's because in Israel the "Sagiv" (the
> Israeli version of plums) season started . We lived in a house in
> Novoselitsa with a big backyard where quite a lot of fruit trees grew.
> Among
> them also plum trees that yielded (as far as I can judge after 72 years)
> something like 500-700 kilograms of fruit. This small plantation was
> tended
> through the year by 3-4 Romanian local farmer women (one of them my wet
> nurse)
> whom we hired on the base that they get
> all the surplus harvest that we didn't use. When the picking of the plums
> was finished a few huge vessels were brought and acordingly big fires were
> lit in a free space of the backyard. The vessels filled with plums were
> hung
> over the fires and the process of making povidla (including the stirring)
> lasted over the night by "our" women aided by friends with my mother
> serving
> refreshments. Always on the Sunday after the distribution of povidla (but
> sometimes on other Sundays too) I was taken by the coachman Mishu to a
> square to watch the farmers dance "Horah" at the "Joc" (a dance
> festivity). When I was put by the British in detention camps in Cyprus I
> was very much surprised that they called the Israeli dances "Horah" too.
> Our relation with those Romanian women was very close and they used to
> come to our house in the evenings after the shearing of the sheep with
> small bales of shorn wool and their spindles and sat for hours spinning
> the wool thread that my mother would buy from them .It was a peaceful and
> friendly atmosphere. In 1940 we went back to Czernowitz in order to avoid
> being deported to Siberia by the Soviets. Maybe this saved our lives,
> because when the Romanian returned in 1941 - 839 jews were massacred in
> the first two days, houses were burned, and plundered, and after 3 weeks
> all the remaining Jews were driven to Transnistria where many if not most
> of them perished. I know that there were locals that joined the Jandarms
> in all this. I don't know if any of the people I told about were among
> those locals. All I know is that I'm glad I can remember (just remember)
> those days despite what Romanians did to me and my family.
 Yosef Eshet
> Original Message -----
> From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
> To: "Sylvia de Swaan" <sylvia.deswaan_at_gmail.com>; "fred love"
> <fredhotman_at_yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "frieda tabak"
> <frieda_tabak_at_yahoo.com>; "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>;
> "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 7:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The making of the Powidla
>
>
>> The big Povidl deluge.
>> It rained plums on Czernowitz for two weeks now.
>> The plums were standing two feet high in the streets and rising.
>> At the start of week three the mass started sliding down to the Prut.
>> The flow was an avalanche of pure Povidl !
>> It took with it all in its way , people ,horses , fiakers.
>> The Prut was purple.
>> On day 14 the rain stopped.
>> A yellow Katchke came flying in from the North.
>> If had a Lopate in its beak.
>>
>> Hardy

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