Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Jewelers

Dear Hedwig, Lony, Yosef and Cornel:

Thank you for your replies.

Hedwig, Cornel is right, you are better than Wikipedia and you have probably answered my question.

One of my uncles, Mechel Beizer, was a talented jeweler who apprenticed in Czernowitz in the 1930s. He subsequently emigrated and had a successful jewelery business in NY.

My mother told me that his final piece of work before completing his apprenticeship was a crown that was presented to the king.

I always thought this might have been
been fanciful thinking on the part of the family who were understandably proud of him. However, your reference to the Weiss firm doing work for the king makes me think I may have been wrong and this was probably where he worked.

Thank you so much and best regards,

Simon

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Simon Kreindler

On 2012-11-18, at 4:45 AM, hedbren_at_zahav.net.il wrote:

> Hi Simon and list members,
> You are asking about jewelry business in old Czernowitz, so I am able to aswer:
> 1.The most famous jewelry business after WW1 was in the Herrengasse 10, "Weiss", near the entrance were 2 big vitrines, windows with different juwelries, on the first floor was the shop and the workers-ateliers and on the second floor the private apartment. The family had 2 sons, Fredy and Erich, . From about 1926/7. M. Weiss became royal jewelry, he worked for the roumanian royal family, also for King Carol( Ms. Lupescu was very proud with the rings ) .
> They moved to Bucarest 1931. They lived there at Calea Victoriei 100. and emigrated in the 1936/7 to USA, California..I know the family story because I lived my first 11 years in the next house and Fredy was my first friend, he visited me and I was often in their apartment..
> I knew that they were related to Dr.Rosenfeld. and by fate, some month ago, Ruth Enis paid me a visit with her cousin from Buenos Aires, named Rosenfeld.( also from Cz.).I am a curious old woman, so I asked her, if she is related to the Weiss family, and the miracle, she told me that the son of Fredy is very famous in USA, his name is Allan Weiss...she gave me the post adress of Allan, I found him in Google, but I had no time to write...
> 2.Another big jewelry business was on the Ringplatz, on the Pardini Promenade, near the corner to Herrengasse:
> "Bianovicz", a big shop with 2 big windows.
> 3.Sidi Gross, the mother of Architect Nathan Gross, both list members, worked in a jewelry business, she is a goldsmith, I am sure she knows more about.
> Best regard
> Hedwig
>
>
>
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