Re: [Cz-L] Going to Czernowitz

The Carpatian mountains west of Czernowitz extend from the north-west
to the east / south-east. Roughly from Kosice and Mukacheve in the
Ukraine
to Sighetu Marmatiei and Bistrita in Romania.
The Jews who lived there in the 18th and 19th century were quite poor,
as were the other ethnic groups living in the region: Ukrainians,
Hungarians,
Slovaks and Romanians.
The terrain is very rocky, no major trade routs run through the
mountains and
the natural resources are few and hard to exploit. Jews moved into
the region
in the 17th century, fleeing from the Chmielnitzki Massacres in
the Lithuanian-Polish lands.
By the late 18th century when ruled by Austria, the Jewish population
in the region increased markedly.

I do not know whether any Jews from the area of Kosice and Mukachevo
moved to Czernowitz, but one set of my great-grandparents moved
to Czernowitz in 1879 - 1880 from the region of Maramures in Romania.
Around 1894 my maternal grandfather briefly returned there to study at
a Yeshiva in what is now named Poienile sub Munte.
A very small village then as now.

Mimi

On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:06 AM, cornel fleming wrote:

> Sorry,Hardy....but try putting "Mountain Jews" into Google and you
> will find
> they are from Azerbaijan and Dagestan. Many are now in Israel,and
> they were
> not all that poor!! The people of the Czernowitz mountains were and
> are
> mainly Huzuls. Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-108819857-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-108819857-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
> HARDY BREIER
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 5:39 AM
> To: CZERNOWITZ-L
> Subject: [Cz-L] Going to Czernowitz
>
> We have explored the Cz approaches:
> From the North
> From the South
> Also the East ,
> But we never explored te West approaches!
> The Karpato-Russ region
> Home of the poorest Jews of Europe
> The mountain Jews !
> Hardy

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