Indeed, Mimi, my grandparents were among them (1920). I understand that my grandmother had a circle of Cz friends when they lived in Alexandria, too.
Regards to all,
Shula
> On Jun 2, 2015, at 9:28 AM, "Taylor, Miriam R" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:52 AM, "annymatar_at_gmail.com" <annymatar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> To my personal knowledge, I was 16 when I left the city, the Jews I
>> knew were traditional but not what you call religious. My uncle was a
>> Cohen, studied in the court of the Sadagura Rebbe layed Tfillin every
>> morning to the day he died, his brother in law was Pinie Spektor the
>> Rebbe and cantor of the Kor Shil, a man I personally adored for his
>> music and his prayer songs, which he wrote himself, - somewhere
>> related to Joseph Schmidt, all the same size too -. The "Awenu
>> Malcheinu" Barbara Streisand sings I only heard singing by Pinie, I
>> suppose he wrote it. My grandfather was a religious man, sat with his
>> black hat and prayed but read Marx and Engels as well as his prayers,
>> the one had nothing to do with the other, his "fellows" at shul called
>> him " der Roiter" which he thought was right.
>> The rest of the family were traditional. I well remember them going to
>> Shul on holydays but otherwise had little to do with religion. I
>> picked the thread up for them and tried to bring it to my family but
>> they're all on the left of the map - maybe one day they will after me.
>> I can well understand Mimi's family for leaving the city. It certainly
>> was not Mea-Shaarim. My Great- Great Grandmother went to Jerusalem to
>> die and I live in Israel with my family to LIVE!!
>> anny
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