Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

Dear CZ list members:
 
     This note is addressed to all participants in the current dialogue
on
Jewish social life in Czernowitz before 1939 and specifically under
Hapsburg rule.
    Many if not most of you appear to have come from middle-class or
more affluent families composed mainly of business people and you
might still be living in Czernowitz if there had been no invasions and the
political climate had not changed. In fact, in the year I've been a list
member I don't recall reading about any poverty for Jews in that city
during the old days.
     But from what I learned from my father, as well as my grandparents
and cousins, the family was so poor in the early 1900's, they never had
enough to eat, forcing Grandpa to borrow passage money to sail to the
United States. Grandpa was a tailor who I'm told made beautiful garments,
yet he could not earn enough to feed his wife and four young children.
     As I have pointed out before, Dad always credited the exceptional
education
he received in Czernowitz for admission into a New York high school at age
13 and into medical school at 17. And. more importantly, whenever my
father
spoke of his childhood it was with deep affection for his native city.
    Happy Chanukkah to all and kindest regards.
 
Iris
 
Iris June Steinhauser Vinegar
Raleigh, North Carolina
 
 
 
 
 
 

In a message dated 12/11/2012 4:11:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jlapides31_at_sbcglobal.net writes:
Mimi,

Thank you for the explanation

Jerry

Jerry Lapides, Ph.D.

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Received on 2012-12-11 17:38:47