My two cents.
Indeed, families in Czernowitz were mixed. My paternal and maternal grandparents were orthodox. The paternal side were Litaim, that is not hassidim, whereas the maternal side were hassidim of the Nadworner rebbe.
My parents were already massortiim, that is traditional. They kept a strictly kosher kitchen, kept the Sabbath rest, but did not go daily or even every Sabbath to the Shul. With my maternal grandparent and my mother, I went for the Holidays to the Nadworner, whereas with my father I went on certain Shabbatot either to the Temple (he - and I followed him - adored Kantoral piyutim and liturigal hasanut), or, in the course of the Fascist occupation and the Soviet one, to little synagogues, wherever there was a good cantor.
During the 3 ghetto years my father used to keep us hopefull with Zmirot Shabbat and other pieces of Hasanut and Zionist movement songs.
Being an ardent Zionist he enrolled his brothers and his sisters in Zionist youth movements (across the whole spectrum, from Hashomer Hatsair to Aguda, according to their wishes) taught each of them a profession, purchased a certificate, and sent them, as well as his parents, to Palestine, from 1924 till 1936. Because of my mother, who did not want to leave her pregnant sisters, we were trapped there until 1939, and then by the war until 1945, escaped to Romania and made Haapala in 1947.
Here I continued my parents' way - the Czernowitzer type of Massortiut - kosher kitchen and no work on Shabbat, but going to Shul only on holidays and part of Shabbatot. And of course adore good Hasanut. The children are already almost entirely secular, but for the kosher kitchen, which they somehow adapted to at home.
So, as you have seen with other families, we had the entire spectrum, but some of my fathers' cousins families were somewhat different - some totally hassidic, some totally secular, and one or two like us. Thus, one cannot paint Czernowitz Jewry in a particular colour - we had it all, as many other cities of the Austro-Hungarian empire...
Regards
Mordecai
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מאת: "Taylor, Miriam R" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
תאריך: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 20:37
נושא: Re: [Cz-L] Sadagura - How religious the Jews in Cz. were
אל: "<annymatar_at_gmail.com>" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
העתק: CZERNOWITZ-L <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
> I think that very many Czernowitz Jewish families were like
> Anny's family.
> And I very much agree with the sentiment behind "and I live with
> my family
> In Israel in order to LIVE".
> I would also like to add that in the nineteenth century the
> Orthodox in Czernowitz
> Were mostly anti-Zionist, but this changed in the twenthiest century.
> There were young people from Czernowitz who emigrated to Palestine
> Before WW2.
>
> Mimi
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