Re: [Cz-L] my latest visit to Czernowitz

From: Benjamin Grilj <b.grilj_at_perspectiveast.com_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 20:32:36 +0200
To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Reply-To: Benjamin Grilj <b.grilj_at_perspectiveast.com>


Dear Mimi,

I had other impressions of Czernowitz, not really good ones.

Your photos:
1. Ringplatz / Zentralna Ploshcha
2. not Ringplatz, Rathaus Straße / Holovna
3. Ringplatz / Zentralna Ploshcha
4. Ringplatz / Zentralna Ploshcha
5. Ringplatz / Zentralna Ploshcha - Hotel Goldener Löwe not Bristol
6. Ringplatz / Zentralna Ploshcha - Hotel Paris (Ecke Russische Gasse / at Vul. Ruska)
7. Rathaus Straße / Holovna
8. Herrengasse / Kobyljanskaja (Ecke Ambrosgasse / next to Vul. Gogola)
9. Ferdinandsplatz
10 - 19 former (Mordko/Mordachei and Taubi) Korn-Synagogue at the Nikolausgasse / Sadovskoho not Bräuhausgasse
20. Gartengasse / Fedkovycha
21. former ruthenian students dormitory Gartengasse / Fedkovycha and Pavlova
22., 23. ?
24. - 26. botanical garden, Gartengasse / Fedkovycha
27. jewish cemetery Friedhofgasse / Zelena
28. buildings No. 5 and 4 of the university Repta Gasse / Kozjubinskoho
29. former priest seminar, today building No. 4 of the university, not the administration (this is No. 5)
30. former Justizpalast, todays regional administration in Hohenlohegasse / Hrushevskoho not an university building
31. Schulgassse / Skilna
32. Ringplatz / Zentralna Ploshcha
33. christian cemetery Friedhofgasse / Zelena

Best, Benjamin






> Am 09.05.2015 um 13:17 schrieb Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>:
>
> In late April I was in Czernowitz for a few days. Despite the ongoing war
> in the eastern Ukraine and the economic problems caused by this war,
> Czernowitz and nearby villages seems much the same
> as in the previous few years, if anything, it seems more prosperous.
>
> In the villages there is much construction of beautiful new houses
> and in Czernowitz there are nice new stores, a new hotel on the Ringplatz,
> and very good new restaurants. People are well dressed,
> there are tourists from within the Ukraine, as well as some from abroad
> and businessmen from various other countries seem to have discovered
> the opportunities available to them.
>
> Rabbi Menahem Mendel Glisnshtain has completely refurbished
> the synagogue, so that it now includes a kindergarten, a mikvah
> and an after-school facility for kids who's parents are not at home
> when the kids come home from school.
>
> I have put the photographs we took in Czernowitz on a Picasaweb album,
> which you can access at:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/MReiferTaylor/CzernowitzApril2015?authkey=Gv1sRgCOve0IPHlY_miAE
>
> [Mimi Taylor]
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