Czernowitzers...
Just in time with the global commemorations to mark 100 years since the end of World War I, I'm taking you back to the year 1917. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Bukovina is Number 5 in a series of more than 160 studies, now available for you at our Czernowitz Book Corner:
https://czernowitzbook.blogspot.com/2018/11/bukovina.html
Keeping in mind different statements on the Bukovinian Jews (see below), it is hardly surprising that the protection of minority rights, particularly those of our ancestors from Bukovina, was quite weak after WWI:
"The Bukovina lies on the great highway of migration from east to west, and is consequently inhabited by a strange mixture of races, even at the present day. […] The Germans in the Bukovina in 1910 numbered 168,851, or 21 per cent of the population, if we include the 102,919 Jews, who are all Germans [!?]. They have an influence out of proportion to their numbers, as it was they who colonized and civilized the country. German is still the language of culture and the official tongue. The Austrian occupation has resulted in a large influx of soldiers and officials, with the result that there is now hardly a village which does not contain a German. […] The Jews are found in compact masses only in Wiznitz, on the Czeremosz, where they form three-quarters of the population, and Sadagora, which lies to the north of the Pruth, but there are also many in Czernowitz and Suczawa."
Edgar Hauster
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Received on 2018-11-13 10:00:33