Re: [Cz-L] The impossible dream

I agree with Hardy. It is surprising that you should be so fascinated in
Cernowitz's "lost world". Once you got into it you dug deeper and deeper
into Jewish life I n Galicia and all the surroundings finding Jewish life
so interesting. I suppose it's so many negative things you heard about our
people that you were surprised to find us "human". I shall never forget
your words about the cemetery in our city, can't quote word for word but "
"old Jewish graves have beautiful stones telling whole stories" (not quoted
exactly) but I found your words so true. The stone cutters knew how to do
that then. Then came, as everything in history, modernity and stones became
uninteresting, just stones with names and dates, I always wonder what the
computer age will bring. No more angels and other beauty in Christian
cemeteries either. The world changes but Christian doesn't and we all think
you're great.
As we celebrate our New Year next week let me wish you and Hardy SHANAH
TOVA which means a good and healthy, happy year
As ever, anny.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Christian Herrmann <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>
wrote:

> Dear Hardy,
>
> thank you so much for your touching comment. I never felt I'm alone with
> my wanderings and explorations and the Czernowitz list is a good example
> for this. Just have a look at the Selma biography of Marion Tauschwitz, the
> essays of Friedrich Ortwein, or the activity of Action Reconciliation. None
> of them has roots in Bukovina but all are attracted by the region.
>
> You ask whether my passion is by coincidence. Well, none of us can oversee
> all the invisible strings we depend on. But at least I can name one reason
> why my fascination for Czernowitz and Bukovina never stoped: It was the
> warm welcome by the list members when I joined the group years ago and all
> the stories that were told here - the funny stories as well as the sad
> stories. I always felt in good company. Isn't this a good reason to
> continue the wanderings?
>
> Shabbat Shalom, Hardy, and everybody else!
> Christian
>
>
>
> Gesendet: Freitag, 19. September 2014 um 08:25 Uhr
> Von: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
> An: CZERNOWITZ-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Betreff: [Cz-L] The impossible dream
> If the Czernowitzer had a choice of a 1001 nights genie and
> could have a wish accomplished no one would dream up Christian.
> For a Koelner German to turn into a Jews of Bukovina explorer
> is beyond imagination.
> Like the fortune teller who was present at his cradle and predicted:
> "When you grow up ,you will travel to faraway lands , of a long
> forgotten people , who spoke strange languages.
> You will look for traces of an extinguished people and
> bring back their existence."
> And so it came to be.
> Was all this by coincidence ?
>
> Hardy
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