Re: [Cz-L] Going to Czernowitz

Somewhere in the west Carpathians stands Mount Hoverla 2000 m elevation the
highest
 in the Chornogora range and the place of the Prut Sources.

Hardy

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Cc: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>; "'CZERNOWITZ-L'"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:48 PM
Subject: 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
>

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