Manny...
Thank you for the new episode from your "family album" and receive as a qui=
d pro quo a bonus reward from the deeps of ANNO (see my yesterday's posting=
). If you go to the ANNO Full-Text-Search
http://anno.onb.ac.at/anno-suche#searchMode=simple&resultMode=list&from=
=1
and introduce "Rosa Greif" into the search engine, narrowing the filter to =
"Czernowitz", you'll get both the - designed - announcement of engagement (=
Bukowinaer Rundschau, 07.07.1892, p. 8) as well as the marriage announcemen=
t (Bukowinaer Rundschau, 04.03.1894, p. 3) for your grandmother Rosa Greif.
Did I exaggerate, when I stated that the ANNO Full-Text-Search is a unique =
research tool? Enjoy!
Edgar Hauster <MacBookAir>
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> From: manny.landau_at_icloud.com
> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:14:01 -0500
> Subject: [Cz-L] My Parents
> CC: manny.landau_at_att.net
> To: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
>
> My Parents
> Part 1
> My mother was Ida (born on 11 of March 1899). Her mother was Rosa Greif, =
a great beauty (if only you could see her photo!). Sadly, she died when Ida=
was nine years old. During WWI the family moved to Vienna where Ida and he=
r older sister Paula went to a boarding school and their father, Joseph Ohr=
enstein, specialized in gynecology. Ida studied at the university of Vienna=
, and got a doctorate in Philosophy and German literature. She later was th=
e General Secretaerin of the Von Szolnay Verlag, the most successful publis=
hing firm in Vienna before WWII. It published German language authors like =
Franz Werfel (40 days of Musa Dagh*), Heinrich Mann (Dr. Unrath, the source=
for the movie The Blue Angel with Marlene Dietrich), and Felix Salten - Id=
a did not like him - (Bambi, A Life in the Woods), as well as the translati=
ons of many English language authors such as John Galsworthy (The Forsyth S=
aga), HG Wells, and Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth). Ida's job was to negoti=
ate contracts with the authors. Some anecdotes: once, under time pressure, =
she went into a hotel room with Franz Werfel, and he dictated to her the la=
st chapters of a book. Pearl S. Buck managed to find a US sponsor for Ida's=
secretary, Annie Poltzer, and her husband, so that they could leave for Am=
erica in 1938, and thus be saved from certain death. Ida married my father =
in 1936, and joined him in Czernowitz.
>
> My father was Jacob Landau the eye doctor. More about him in another segm=
ent. When I was growing up he was serous, hard working and rarely cracked a=
joke. Ida on the other hand was lively with a wonderful sense of humor.
>
> I will end this segment with a wonderful quotation from Goethe:
> Vom Vater hab ich die Statur/ Des Lebens ernstes Fuehren/
> Von Muetterchen die Frohnatur/ Und Lust zu fabulieren/
>
> From father I have the stature/ To lead an earnest life withal/
> From mother the happy nature/ The joy of telling tales tall/
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> * Only The Forsyth Saga and The Good Earth were published by Von Szolnay
>
> Manny Landau
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
=
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