Re: תשובה: [Cz-L] Cemetery

Not all Jews living currently in Czernowitz are old and I doubt
that many hide their Jewishness. It seems to me that in Chernivtsi,
just like formerly in Czernowitz, most people know each other
and could not hide their background even if they wanted to.
But you cannot compare the present Jewish community of 1500 people
to the former community of 50 000.
I still maintain that communism made people more sceptic
and less willing to participate in any joint endeavors.
Communism was not, as David Glynn writes, a long time ago.
The people who are now in their fifties still were educated in it.

Some Jewish young people have occasionally joined the foreign volunteers
and worked at clearing the cemetery and some of the wealthier Jews in
town
have donated money to CJCRO. But the majority do not.

Mimi

On Oct 15, 2014, at 6:26 AM, Hardy Breier wrote:

> The Jews of today are old and left behind and will not volunteer
> for anything. The young and prosperous hide their jewishness.
> This is incomparable to the situation of Jewish life before the war.
> Many Jewish philanthropists, Zionist, Socialist organizations
> Different story,
> Today they are old and grim and different.
> Not cut of the old material.
> And destitute,
> There are some rich. These who rebuilt the Korn Shul.
> They live in Israel.
>
> Hardy
> -----הודעה מקורית-----
> מאת: bounce-118206455-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-118206455-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] בשם David Glynn
> נשלח: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 3:36 PM
> אל: czernowitz-l
> נושא: [Cz-L] Cemetery
>
> I am certainly under the impression that the present-day Jews of
> Czernowitz
> are not particularly interested in maintaining the cemetery. (Or
> is this
> unfair?) Why is this? Does this all derive from the “each person
> for
> himself” mentality of Communist times, as Mimi suggests?
> Communism was a
> long time ago now, have people there not grown out of this
> mentality yet? I
> find it surprising that none of the city’s Jews volunteer to do
> any work in
> the cemetery.
>
> David

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