[Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: October 19, 2014

Re conversions: I am always a bit wary of people who convert to another
religion. Mother had a cousin whose husband was a famous doctor and their
eldest son became a doctor, too. They were what I would categorize as
Protestant type Jews. By that I mean, if you asked them if they believed in
God they would say, "Of course," and that's about as far as their
religiosity went. They might have been married in a Shul and even had some
sort of celebration for their boys when they turned 13 but they observed no
other things related to religion. Most protestants I know are like that.
The son met and married an Irish Catholic girl who decided to convert to
Judaism. I doubt that he'd asked her to. It must have been her personal
desire. And she studied Judaism and kept a Kosher house with two sets of
dishes, on and on. She must have felt that Catholicism as she knew it was
not close enough to God or whatever.

I don't know about conversions to Judaism in contemporary Chernivtsi (is
it with the "i" or "y"? I can't keep track) It would be very interesting
to interview some of these converts to get an understanding of what their
motivation was.

When Jews converted to Christianity or even Islam in predominantly
Christian or Muslim countries it was to save their lives or to improve
them, not for religious reasons. But when anyone NOT under the Islamic
yoke today converts to Islam, then I know we have a mental case.

As for your wish, Hardy, to get some recognition of our existence in Cz a
generation or two or three ago - that's an unrealistic dream. These are
people that maybe were born in our former homes. To them it is their home.
Under Communism nobody owned homes or anything. They have their lives to
live in today's world and care no more about the past than a New Yorker
might care about the fact that Manhattan was bought from the Indians for
$24 and that the Indians got cheated.

Andy Halmay

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Czernowitz Genealogy and History digest <
czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu> wrote:

> CZERNOWITZ-L Digest for Sunday, October 19, 2014.
>
> 1. Re: [Cz-L] Space and Memory: Culture, Politics and Civil Society in
> Bukovina
> 2. Re: [Cz-L] Converted_Jews
> 3. [Cz-L] House with refrigerator
> 4. [Cz-L] Cherescu school
> 5. [Cz-L] Cherescu - Paul's school
> 6. Re: [Cz-L] Space and Memory: Culture, Politics and Civil Society in
> Bukovina
> 7. [Cz-L] "Arnold Daghani. Who Is He?" by Miha Ahronovitz
> 8. [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: October 18, 2014
> 9. Re: [Cz-L] Converted_Jews
> 10. [Cz-L] Re: Converted Jews
> 11. [Cz-L] Todesfuge dreams
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