Elementary reading for all those who believe
that Czernowitz was a Shangri-la of the Jews
of the East - .
It was not.
Hardy
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מאת: bounce-119011644-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-119011644-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] בשם Edgar Hauster
נשלח: Sunday, April 05, 2015 12:04 PM
אל: Czernowitz Discussion Group
עותק: Sasha Wolloch
נושא: [Cz-L] Book of the Month, April 2015: Usury in Bukovina
Czernowitzers...
It was our fellow member Sasha Wolloch, who drew my attention to Dr. Julius Platter's book "Der Wucher in der Bukowina" [Usury in Bukovina], now available as Book of the Month, April 2015, at our Czernowitz Book Corner:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.de/2015/04/der-wucher-in-der-bukowina-usury-in.html
Dr. Julius Platter (1844-1923), a prominent economist, lectured statistics in Czernowitz (1877-1879) and economics in Zürich (1879-1921). No doubt about, his book is also an anti-Semitic tractate, ascribing "Usury in Bukovina" solely to the Jews, but nevertheless it's an most interesting and important contemporary document. His snapshots from Czernowitz, see p. 39 et seqq., such as
"The ideal filthy, ragged man, whose image can be conjured by the average Western European only in his wildest fantasies, really exists here and is visible at every step. You see pants made from twenty or thirty different scraps of material but that still consist mainly of holes; you see frock coats that lack the entire back side and whose owners, unfortunately, are wearing neither waistcoats nor undershirts. I saw completely naked little girls between four and six years of age playing with half-naked boys in the dust of the capital’s streets. But the main fashion one sees are large hordes of men in kaftans, and the sight of these garments alone can ruin even the heartiest appetite."
motivated Chaim Zhitlowsky, the Jewish socialist, phliosopher and vice-president of the Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference of 1908, to try to get to the bottom of Julius Platter's theories.
Enjoy Julius Platter's original text - in German - as well as excerpts out of Chaim Zhitlowsky's tractate "A Jew to Jews" - in English - at our a. m. post!
Edgar Hauster
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