Re: [Cz-L]DW Interview with Mykola Kuschnir, the Director of the Czernowitz Jewish Museum

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:20:33 -0500
To: Boris Briker <boris.briker_at_villanova.edu>
Reply-To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Thank you Boris for sending us the open letter from the VAAD website.
Josef Zissels wrote a very explicit and good letter.

Mimi
On Mar 6, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Boris Briker wrote:

> Thanks, Edgar,
>
> Here is something similar. This is the open letter to Putin from
> the Ukrainian VAAD website. While this letter is signed by a
> number of prominent Ukrainian Jews, it seems that it was initiated
> by the chairman of Ukrainian Vaad, Iosif Zisels. Iosif is
> Czeronowitzer and (among other things) he is the founders of Jewish
> museum in our city.
>
> http://eajc.org/page32/news43672.html
>
> Boris
> ________________________________________
> From: bounce-112957255-62125556_at_list.cornell.edu
> [bounce-112957255-62125556_at_list.cornell.edu] on behalf of Edgar
> Hauster [bconcept_at_hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 10:21 AM
> To: Czernowitz Discussion Group
> Subject: [Cz-L]DW Interview with Mykola Kuschnir, the Director of
> the Czernowitz Jewish Museum
>
> Czernowitzers...
>
> Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster just
> released today an most interesting interwiew headlined "Wir sind
> keine Nationalisten" [We Are Not Nationalists] with our friend
> Mykola Kuschnir, the Director of the Czernowitz Jewish Museum
>
> http://www.dw.de/kuschnir-wir-sind-keine-nationalisten/a-17477933
>
> on the current situation - and particularly on the concerns of a
> growing anti-Semitism - in Ukraine and in Czernowitz. As a non-
> native speaker, it's hard to me to translate the entire interview
> to English, therefore I'm encouraging our "linguistic geniuses" to
> do so? Just a few highlights, stated by Mykola:
>
> Mykola Kuschnir: http://www.dw.de/image/0,,17478023_403,00.jpg
>
> - Mykola is not afraid of a swing to the right.
> - Currently there are 3,000 Jews among the 250,000 inhabitants of
> Czernowitz.
> - Compared to two, three days ago, the situation in Czernowitz
> calmed down.
>
> Czernowitz on 25.01.2014: http://www.dw.de/image/
> 0,,17386697_403,00.jpg
>
> - Currently there is no elected mayor/governor in Czernowitz, the
> old ones were discharged.
> - The right wing Svoboda Party seems to be less radical, but it's
> still a threat.
> - There is no danger whatsoever for the Jewish Community of
> Czernowitz.
> - There are no tensions between the Russian and the Ukrainian
> speaking population of Czernowitz.
> - Reforms are overdue, especially in the educatioanl and the
> communication sectors.
>
> Enjoy the interview! Not so bad news from Czernowitz, at least for
> the moment!
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
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