RE: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

Hi, all,

Just a minor correction regarding the Kor Shil.

The chief cantor Pinie (Pinchas) Spector was not a rabbi. He was just an
outstanding cantor. I knew him very well since I was a choir boy in his
choir. Many of the choir members used to come to his apartment, we had
there rehearsals before each holliday; he taught us solfege and his daughter
used to accompany us on her piano. He composed himself all his prayer
melodies. Hassidim used to say that he got the inspiration for those
melodies from the Boyanner Rebbe's court in Boyan where he acted as the
court's cantor.

Abraham K.

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To: Miriam Taylor
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

Hi all,
I find this discussion extremely interesting even more so because new names
appeared on the list, names, I at least, never heard from before.
I'm afraid I have no German thesaurus to find the correct interpretation of
the word "snob". Mimi so aptly explained how "upper and lower"
Czernowitzers lived and how many divisions were in both societies,
religous, zionist,educated, town and suburbs (Sadagura, Rosch etc.).
I would like to add that in my own family these divsions were accepted. My
grandfather was a very religious man who lived in a household which was
"modern". He himself, like most of my "educated" family was impressed by he
socialist idea and read many modern books. My uncle studied in the Sadura
court, laid Tfillin to the day he died, his brother in law was Rabbi
Spector -who was the cantor and rabbi of the Kor-schil- without all the
glory of Ober-Rabiner Marc, a very modest man who wrote the most beautiful
music and sang without organ, brother in law to Joseph Schmidt.
All these were my close and beloved family but we spoke German, knew and
were proud to be Jewish, enjoyed every Holyday in Shul. Were we snobs
because we didn't speak Yiddish?
My step-father had family in Rosch. We visited each other and in need we
were there to help. Their two daughters were my friends till they passed
away. What am I?? I never knew that there were Goim in town except for our
Hausmeister, the police and army who walked around town with their light
blue uniforms and powdered faces and, of course the firemen. For me
Gheorghe - Cuza was the first encounter with "the others". I lived and
breathed Jewish life but I never looked down on others, I just never
encountered them.
Hag Sameach, Shabbat Shalom,
anny

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