Sorry a mistake it should be 19th century.
Yosef Eshet
----- Original Message -----
From: "Prof. James Wald" <jwald_at_hampshire.edu>
To: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>; "Miriam Taylor"
<mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Cc: "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] new map for our collection
> Fascinating. How were you able to trace them so far back?
>
> [Jim Wald]
>
> On 12/10/2015 01:48, yosi-jerry wrote:
>> I have evidence of my forefathers there from the beginning of the 18th
>> century.
>> Yosef Eshet
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Wald" <jwald_at_hampshire.edu>
>> To: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>> Cc: "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2015 9:14 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] new map for our collection
>>
>>
>>> That is a very interesting question. Because the answer is probably: not
>>> many, it would be very interesting to know if we could trace any
>>> individual families that far back.
>>>
>>> There was apparently always some Jewish population in the region--but,
>>> as most list members know, the Jewish population of Bukovina was at
>>> first very small, and then grew rapidly only after the mid-19th century
>>> from in-migration. Jews made up only about 3 percent of the population
>>> until then.
>>>
>>> Many of you are also familiar with Hugo Gold's History of the Jews of
>>> Bukovina, which was written in German but has been made available in
>>> English via the Jewishgen website.
>>>
>>> Gold cites a population of 906 (206 families) in 1769, before the war
>>> that preceded Austrian acquisition of the territory; 2906 (650 families)
>>> in 1796. (http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bukowinabook/buk1_011.html)
>>>
>>> Then we find 7726 in 1830
>>> (http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bukowinabook/buk1_045.html)
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim
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