Re: [Cz-L] Turkenbrunnen

The name Judengasse could be seen as a sign of recognition or as a
sign of discrimination.
Calling the street Shalom Aleichem street is in my opinion less
ambiguous. .
 From time to time Soviet governments wanted to show off their "lack
of Anti-Semitism"
or equal treatment of all minorities and one way of doing this, was
to recognize exceptional
artists in other languages, or promote schools which taught the
languages of minorities.

That is why Shalom Aleichem was given due respect, also Eliezer
Steinbarg and why in 1944
the Yiddish school was opened at the beginning of June, only two
month after the conquest
of Czernowitz and even though the school year finished at the end of
June.
My age group, who could not start school when we were supposed to,
either because of being
in Transnistria, or because Jewish children were not allowed to go to
school in Romania
during the war, all learned in one month what other children usually
learn in one year.

I hope you will be pleased to know, that among the members of this
list, there are at least
two such talented people, Arthur Rindner and I.
If there are others, please make yourself known, so you will be
included among
the "1944 first grade Geniuses of the Yiddish school of Czernowitz".

Mimi

On Aug 27, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Raanan Avi wrote:

> Now days Shalom Aleichem street is the name of the former
> Judengasse, or Evreyaska (in the Romanian) my grand-grand father
> home was there.
> Not clear why the Soviet/Ukraine regime selected this name.
> Is Shalom Aleichem considered as an important figure in Ukraine /
> Russian culture? As far as I know he was not from Czernowitz.
>
> Avi

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