Re: [Cz-L] 115 year old postcard

Time changes all things. In current Chernivtsi I know at least one
man of Hutzul origin
who is a university professor, ahighly educated person and most
certainly not an anti-semite.
Mimi
On Mar 10, 2014, at 4:27 AM, Edgar Hauster wrote:

> Hardy...
>
> Romantic interpretation (which lady?), but I'm afraid, that Charles
> (and Shelley) got it right. Erwin Javor, a Jew and a self-made
> business man from Austria, originating from Eastern Galicia, writes
> in his travel log for a journey to his roots in 2012 (!!!):
>
> "My father spoke always despisingly about Huzuls and Ruthenians and
> their atavistic, uneducated, violent, sottish and sanctimonious
> anti-Semitism..."
>
> A few lines later, Erwin emphasizes his own position now, i. e. in
> 2012 (!!!):
>
> "Basically, there the time stood still. Many of them [Huzuls and
> Ruthenians] are still unchanged: ready to use violence, crude,
> paternalistic, nervously hidden behind their tavern roaring..."
>
> Source: http://www.javor.at/publikationen/echo/pokusch
>
> Erwin and Marcel in secret understanding over a time gap of 113
> years!?
>
>
> Edgar Hauster
> Lent - The Netherlands
>
>

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