Re: [Cz-L] The purpose of this list

Welcome Vicki,
  Let us see :
  Your biological grandfather was Jewish. Gd-mother Ukrainean.
    From Czernowitz and Kutschumara,
     Your father was therefore by Jewish rite not Jewish.
     The other two children she had were from the same Jewish father ?
      Who was your mother ? Jewish ?
       What do you know about your Czernowitz father ?
     Is decency s transmitted by genes ?
Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Mom" <lwncxv_at_gmail.com>
To: "Bruce Reisch" <bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu>
Cc: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 5:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The purpose of this list

> Thank you for this, Bruce.
>
> I joined this list-serve a short time ago in order to search for
> genealogical information about the identity of my biological paternal
> grandfather.
>
> This ongoing debate has been disturbing to me from the standpoint of
> the story behind my search for the identity of my grandfather:
>
> My Ukrainian grandmother, born and raised in Cucuirul Mare, Bukovina,
> was married out of necessity to a Ukrainian man whom she did not love.
> While he was away in Canada on his own preparing to bring her and
> their two children over, she fell in love with her true soulmate -- a
> Jewish Czernowitzer from what I have been told. My father's 1932 birth
> was the result of their illicit union. She and her three children
> eventually joined the man-she-did-not-love in Canada. The few precious
> photographic keepsakes I have from this love story provides me with
> irrefutable evidence that Ukrainian/Jew meant nothing to them. They
> simply loved one another and fate denied them a life together. My
> father was a decent man. I believe myself to be a decent person. Am
> I to credit this to my Ukrainian grandmother's genes or my mystery
> Jewish grandfather's? These debates would have me thinking that the
> goodness of one set of genes must have trumped the evil of the other.
> But whose?
>
> I hope someday to successfully discover my grandfather's identity via
> this resource -- and it matters not a whit to me what his ethnic or
> religious background was.
>
> Vicki
>
>
>

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