Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

  In answer to Iris:

  Your observation that most members of the list come from middle class
  or more affluent families, is largely correct. Those members of the List,
  who were born in Czernowitz and remember it as it was before WW2,
  know from personal experience, only what life was like after 1925, or
  considerably later. This is the period we mostly write about. Compared to
  the early part of the 20th century, by the mid-twenties and till the
  Russian period of 1941, a greater proportion of the Jewish population had
  had a higher education and had become professionals. Many of those
  who were not financially successful in the early part of the century had
  by then, emigrated and the financial situation of most of those who staid
  had largely improved.
  Much can be learned from the address books; it is relatively easy to
  recognize who is Jewish by the names of the people. Since the address
  books also give the occupation of each head of household, it is possible
  to match the number of Jewish householders and their occupations in
  one year with the same type of data for another year.

Mimi
   

On 12/11/12 6:54 PM, "IrisJune11_at_aol.com" <IrisJune11_at_aol.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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