RE: [Cz-L] After we go.

Mordecai,I hear what you say...but it would be a much more enlightening
experience both for you and your grandchildren if you visited "the
Czernowitz of these days". I took both my kids there.The reaction to
visiting the city of my birth and early years,plus seeing family graves,made
the trip totally worthwhile. And seeing today's Czernowitz through their
eyes made it doubly so. To the coming generations that"want to hear and read
about it" actually going and seeing is far more effective in every possible
way. Cornel

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Dear all,

I do confess that because of the tribulations in the course of 1940-45 I
lost all interest in revisiting Czernowitz after I left it end of April that
year, and in particular after I left for home here in 1947. This despite the
fact that over several decades I have travelled to much of the world - as a
UN technological assistance expert - but have always avoided Czernowitz (and
Romania). This travel was due a lot to the many languages I could easily
manage thanks to the start I received in Czernowitz. I suppose this is true
for most of us. Indeed, much of what I am is the result of those first years
of education in cultured Czernowitz, So I owe Czernowitz a lot - but not the
Czernowitz of these days.
Surprisingly, as Merle suggested below, I found that my children, and in
particular my grandchildren, are interested in that Czernowitz of the World
of Yesterday, and want to hear and read about it. To respond to their
desires and repeated wishes, I have started to write up my memories of the
two so terribly differing periods I lived in Czernowitz (1933-40, and
1940-5) and hope to have it done by coming Purim. This will in a way
transmit the old Czernowitz to them and show them part of their genetic and
cultural roots.
I would recommend that all of us, who have not done so yet, do something
similar for our children and grandchildren. I am not suggesting volumes for
publication - a few of us (like Prof. Yaavets, for instance), have already
done so. Just a private volume for the family. I think we owe it to them and
to what Czernowitz has given us when we were children and youngsters. It is
no too difficult to do. Just sit down, set up a tentative detailed list of
contents (to start with - it will grow as you go along and associations
start cropping up), and then start inserting text for each topic you recall.
This is something that will take months, and it will take you back for a
lengthy visit of the Czernowitz you remember.

Have a pleasant week

Mordecai

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