RE: [Cz-L] Journey through Galicia and Bukovina in May and April 2013 - Some Thoughts

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How true

Channa

From: akofner_at_hotmail.com
To: hardy3_at_bezeqint.net; cyberorange_at_gmx.de; czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Journey through Galicia and Bukovina in May and April 2013 - Some Thoughts
Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 09:44:15 -0400
How true.
Channa

> From: HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET
> To: cyberorange_at_gmx.de; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Journey through Galicia and Bukovina in May and April 2013 - Some Thoughts
> Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 07:22:37 +0300
>
> In the footsteps of Christian.
> Analyzing the texts of the tombstones we can see following:
> 1. In Galizia all stones are in Hebrew.
> 2. In Bukovina province stones are in Hebrew but family names
> sometimes appear in German at the bottom.
> 3. In Czernowitz the older stones are in Hebrew only.
> Humble and uniform.
> Then the Jews became rich :
> Stones carry Hebrew and German inscriptions.
> Jews get even richer:
> Stones turn into black granite obelisks and inscriptions
> are in German only.
> Birds and lions join in.
> Often joined by a poem by the family poet.
> This is my general impression of the trend.
> ( The old graves are never vandalized).
> Hardy
>

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