Re: [Cz-L] After we go

From: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:08:18 +0200
To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, Cornel Fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>, 'Jacob Greenberg' <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
Reply-to: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>

With the exuberant outburst of affection for all the things Czernovitsi
of today, the most logical solution would be to go and settle there.
 The UKR Jewish committee is encouraging such a move and
  old timers will be more than welcome.
    So instead of writing as an outsider you can be back in the
 city that you love .
    You will be back to the city of its inhabitants, living on
 a monthly pension that will cover one day's rent of a modest hotel room.
   You may also try and retrieve your old house.
     The current inhabitants will appreciate this very much.
   But the Kwass will be cheap and the friendliness of the
   inhabitants incomparable.
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "Cornel Fleming"
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; "'Jacob Greenberg'" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] After we go

> Thousands of us fled Czernowitz in 1945 and 1946. Some of us
> risked being shot in trying to cross the border into Romania illegally.
> Was this because we loved the Romanians?
> Or we hated the city of Czernowitz?
> No. It was because we did not want to live under oppression.
> We all hoped to eventually get to Palestine and for it to become
> our Jewish state, where we would be free to be ourselves.
> Never the less, Czernowitzers continued to long for Czernowitz
> as it had been.
>
> The esthetic sense of the current inhabitants is different from ours.
> I do not like pink or purple Cathedrals any better than Hardy, but I like
> drab Soviet architecture even less.
> Lviv by comparison is older and more splendid, but the palace
> of count Pototzki gives it its character, it is a city of the Polish
> nobility, Czernowitz is and was a city of its inhabitants.
>
> Mimi
>
>
>
> On 10/17/12 12:44 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:
>
>> In 1944 and 45 and later when the Jews fled Cz in masses
>> I never heard any reflexions on how we are going to miss Cz.
>> How are we going to continue life without the splendor
>> of the Morariogasse ?
>> Out, out was the slogan. Run while you can.
>> And Cornel : there were no pink Cathedrals and purple houses
>> in our time.
>> This is new : the Czerno -Polka dot -Disneywitz,
>> for the very young..
>> If youre past six it loses its charm.
>> Hardy

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