And... to Iosef Vaisman (see:
http://www.bioinformatics.gmu.edu/vaisman/ )
-- thank you for drilling back into Ehpes history to pull this post together for us!
It is always interesting to see how our discussions inform serious
academic work. The collective memory and of this group is priceless --
the trailing edge of a evanescent world.
Best,
jerome
On 2015-05-09 21:15, iosif vaisman wrote:
> Seven years ago Svitlana Frunchak, then a graduate student from
> Toronto, introduced herself to this list (http://goo.gl/ytxsAI) and
> later posted few more times. Last year she successfully defended her
> PhD thesis entitled "The Making of Soviet Chernivtsi: National
> "Reunification", World War II, and the Fate of Jewish Czernowitz in
> Postwar Ukraine". As far as I know this is the first doctoral
> dissertation ever, which is focused on a period in the Czernowitz
> Jewish history (there is a plenty of dissertations on various
> Czernowitz literary and other celebrities and events, but this is the
> first one about Jews of Czernowitz as a subject). The dissertation
> presents a well written description of an extensive research on
> demographic and sociocultural changes in the mid-20th century
> Chernovtsy, but it also covers periods before and after that. The work
> has some shortcomings (notably, the sources in Yiddish seem to be left
> completely out of consideration, which for this topic presents a major
> problem), but overall Svitlana Frunchak ought to be congratulated on
> the completion of her important and well done project.
>
> Our list is featured fairly prominently in the dissertation (this is
> the fifth dissertation in the last three years where the Czernowitz
> List is mentioned multiple times). Svitlana Frunchak writes: "A rich
> source of information about pre-Soviet Chernivtsi and memory about it
> can be found on http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/ which has become a venue
> of communication between those who identify themselves with Jewish
> Czernowitz (rather than contemporary Chernivtsi) and, as such, a site
> of a virtual existence of the image of the prewar city." Among other
> things from the list she mentions some personal memoirs, cemetery
> preservation efforts, and Chernivtsi Jewish Museum. The dissertation
> contains an extensive (more than half-page) quotation from Hardy
> Breier, accompanied by a note: "This citation is from a post on the
> listserv Czernowitz-L, a virtual space of communication between "old
> Czernowitzers," most of whom are Jews. For more information, see
> http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/ (I preserved original spelling and
> grammar). Hardy Breier is one of the most dedicated contributors to
> the internet-based myth of Czernowitz that acquired a life of its
> own." So, congratulations to Hardy too on earning a nice place in the
> annals of academic czernowitzology!
>
> A couple of weeks ago the dissertation was positively reviewed by a
> Lithuanian historian Jolanta Mickute (http://goo.gl/P79ya8). I hope
> that Svitlana Frunchak would eventually rework her dissertation into a
> book, but for now, those of us who are not patient enough to wait for
> a book, can read the dissertation itself(https://goo.gl/YcnbKY).
>
> Iosif
>
>
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