RE: [Cz-L] Interesting link...

Dear Berty
I did not criticize Sasha Titov. He wrote about history following the assignment's guidelines, covering the pre-WWII
(BTW the whole post consist of at least 3 essays). Those of us who were unlucky to grow up in post-war Czernowitz know that it
 all was gone by the time we were born. It's nice to know that before our time more than 40% of the students in the University were Jewish. In my time the norm was 2-4% in a good year. Most of my friends had to study far away to be able to get their higher education. In 2000 and 2001 as a part of Jewish Educators group I visited Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia. We were withe a scholar in residence from Yad Vashem and met with leaders from local communities.
As we were taken around and introduced to the rich Jewish History while visiting Jewish schools, museums, Community Centers and cemeteries same pattern kept popping up.
The Jewish population is almost gone. The one who stayed behind are old (children in Israel or USA), Mixed marriage families and/or assimilated. Strong presence of Chabbad. Non- Jewish guides opening the old Synagogues for us because there are no Jews left - Padua one of them. Not all of the students in the Jewish schools are Jewish because the education is better and it's heavily subsidized. I see the same pattern in Czernowitz. My friend was the president of the Jewish community in the 90's, at their first seder the only one who could read the Haggadah in Hebrew was the former translator from KGB (not Jewish).
I can not help but feel that the renaissance of the great love for the Jewish history is because we are HISTORY. We are the PAST.
Our past is being marketed. Today's Czernowitz is in Ukraine and this is a fact and this is the PRESENT.
As for the kids. They did a great job with their presentations and deserve the praise.

BTW. If you go to the main page, there is a link to Museum and to our site.
This site is a part of world Khibur (connection) project supported by the Pinchus Foundation of Jewish education in Israel.
 
Happy New Year to all
Channa
  

e: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:34:47 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Interesting link...
> From: berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com
> To: akofner_at_hotmail.com
> CC: cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net; czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
>
> He must be a very bright tenth grader this Sacha Titov and not at all
> to be criticized for concentrating on the past - the present and the
> more recent past (Soviet and Ukrinian) is still to be seen around and
> probably was for him at least, not a subject to be researched.
>

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