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

Cornel...

Why don't you leave your comment at page 4 of the article

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/117117/everything-is-regurgitated/4

where you'll find another 6 comments?

Best wishes!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> From: cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net
> To: mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu; s_wiener_at_yahoo.com; czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Czernowitz Article on Tablet -online Jewish Magazine
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:58:17 +0000
>
> I very much agree with Mimi...and I have had no reply so far from the Tablet
> asking re readers letters! Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-72469673-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [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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