RE: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Article on Tablet -online Jewish Magazine

I very much agree with Mimi...and I have had no reply so far from the Tablet
asking re readers letters! Cornel

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[mailto:bounce-72469673-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Miriam Taylor
Sent: 29 November 2012 17:16
To: Shellie Wiener; Genealogy and History Czernowitz
Subject: Re: [CzL] Czernowitz Article on Tablet -online Jewish Magazine

I am not sure whether this article in Tablet magazine is biased or not,
but it is certainly inaccurate. Among the inaccurate statements:
1. "the treaty of Versailles in 1919 gave half of Bukovina to Romania."
    Fact: The whole province was given to Romania.
2. about the fate of the Jewish population of Czernowitz during WW2:
    " Two-thirds of them would be deported to Transnistria or further."
    actually the number of deported was only slightly higher than half
    the population.
3. I do not know whether Aharon Appelfeld actually visited Czernowitz
    in recent years, if he did, I cannot understand why he would say that:
    "there was not very much of his city, the old Chernowitz, remaining"
    Fact: The population has changed, so has the culture, but physically,
    the city has changed less in the last 67 years, than many other cities.

I am particularly outraged by what Vladimir Davidzon (the author of
the article), writes about Natalia Shevchenko.
Natalia was the first curator of the Jewish Museum of Chernivtsi.
I have met her many times and corresponded with her extensively
when she was collecting items to be displayed in the museum.
She is highly educated and competent and her knowledge of the current
important personalities of the city, is an asset and not a detriment.
She is Jewish and therefore hardly likely to be an Anti-Semite.

Mimi
    

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