Re: [Cz-L] After we go

I too was told that the current Jewish population of Chernivtsi
numbers 1500.
The total population of Chernivtsi numbers about 230,000.
This means that Jews constitute 0.6% of the total population.
Yet there are currently two (2) Jewish members of the city council,
constituting about 7% of the council. It follows that many non-Jews
must have voted for the Jewish councilmen.

The contribution of the former Jewish residents to the culture
and development of the city is currently recognized.
I was told by researchers at the Holocaust Museum, that in Chernivtsi
there are more memorial plaques to former Jewish residents,
than in any other city in the Ukraine.

As to the assimilation of the jewish population: You can find examples
for every possible occurrences. The people who live in the apartment
in which my family lived during the war, have a daughter, who married
a Chernivtsi Jewish man and they now live in Israel. This summer,
in the cemetery, I met a woman who had left Chernivtsi and now lives
in Israel.
With her were her daughter and Ukrainian son in law, who live in
Chernivtsi.

Many Jewish residents are married to non-Jews, yet the attendance
at Saturday morning prayers in rabbi Glisenshtains synagogue was
quite great.

Chernivtsi now is not what Czernowitz was in 1939.
But it is certainly a better place than it was during the soviet period.

It is not the people who moved to the city from the villages who are
to blame
for the neglect of some streets and buildings, but rather the residue
of Russian
habits of negligence and mismanagement.

Mimi

On Oct 17, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Jacob Greenberg wrote:

> A few jews were still there in Soviet times... are you serious?
> During the Soviet period there were more than 70.000 jews in Cz,
> (and not even one synagogue!) most of the students in my class were
> Jewish.
> Native Chernowitzers became a minority. And they were a miserable
> lot. They were unable to adapt and, eventually, most of their
> children (from my generation) married out.
> Besarabians, on the other hand, adapted very well and even thrived
> during those tough times.
> Then, we all left.Ukrainians from the villages moved in
> There are now 1.500 Jews in Cz and that's why Cz looks sad. . Even
> my non-jewish former classmates confirm that.
> The architecture is fine, the festivals keep going but Cz without
> Jews has lost it...
>
> Serah Kraft

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