RE: [Cz-L] After we go

Annie...that is your opinion,but not, repeat not, mine! Living there,for
me,could be attractive,very easily. On one of my visits I was invited to a
Jewish evening at the Cheremosh.They had,of all things,an Israeli Klezmer
band...and the place was packed!! I felt very much at home! Even more
surprising,many were speaking Yiddish and Czernowitzer Deutsch..Houses do
not have to be all gray...old houses need repainting....so what?? You have
your memories..and so have I,but I am willing to update my memories.
And,just for interest's sake. In the current London Jewish Chronicle is a
picture of the world,s largest Jewish Cen,with more floor space the Windsor
Castle,was opened this week...in Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine.The mezuzah was
affixed to the door by Israeli Sephardi Chief Rabbi,Shlomo Amar....all for a
Jewish population that has grown to around 22000. If they can do it,so can
Czernowitz!!! If you want to look it all up on google, it is called "The
Menorah Centre. Cornel

From: Anny Matar [mailto:annymatar_at_gmail.com]
Sent: 20 October 2012 18:06
To: HARDY BREIER
Cc: cornel fleming; Miriam Taylor; Jacob Greenberg; CZERNOWITZ-L
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] After we go

Through the pictures I have seen I don't recognize MY city. There was a lot
of colour in that "old" town. The Austriaplatz had its own magic with the
peasants bringing their home products as well as live poultry. Women buying
their goods, blowing the feathers in the backs of the chicken to see whether
its "fat" enough and in the spring and summer the flowers!! Having a park
instead of a market and soldiers parading on it doesn't add to the Czenowitz
I knew. Hardy is quite right, visiting it is a fleeting moment, Living
there, Cornel, can't possibly be attractive, the "friendly" people soon
change their "spots" if you tread on their turf. We, those who lived there
till the 40s or earlier, watched these changes with horror when all these
friendly? people changed into packs of beasts and spat their hatred at us.
Jews can't help treading on toes because we, by nature, try to better our
lives and thus "show off". It isn't badly meant, we want our comforts and
bring something new, unwanted, into their ordinary lives.

MY memories are mine and as, Merle, said NO ONE CAN TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME.
The city had it character even the slush belonged to it when

Fiackers passed and splashed it all around. Came winter and it was all
covered in white, all the dirt hidden by that blanket of silence, houses
were gray, as old houses are supposed to be -it's called

"patina"- like we have our wrinkles of which each one has a story to tell
and when one face-lifts it, it looks just like Czernowitz does today, all
parks and benches in the centre but, the the side streets?? broken pavements
and neglect as the pictures taken at the Paul Celan meeting showed.

Well, thinking about it, it is the city of the second/third generation and
they see pink and blue houses, everything green and white-washed. It is
their city and those longing for it.

Have a good week, anny
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