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Julian and Shula
I can add something: romantic relationships were accepted in Czernowitz =
before the First World War. =20
My great grandmother and her brother were good examples of a romantic =
attachment in the 1890=E2=80=99s, even though they were both introduced =
by a third party:
1) My great grandmother Klara Schwarzwald and her elder brother Hermann =
both married out of love. Hermann was engaged to Genia (Eugenie =
Nussbaum) in the 1890=E2=80=99s when he had started working and he then =
financed her studies at Zurich University, I believe. She graduated =
with a PhD and then they moved to Vienna as a married couple. There they =
founded the Schwarzwaldschule together.=20
2) My grandfather wrote how his own parents met in his autobiography:=20
"One of my mother's teachers was my father=E2=80=99s sister Minna. And =
one of her schoolmates was Eugenie Nussbaum.=20
But as time went on, my father saved money and his family =
responsibilities came to an end. His mother had died and his sister had =
become a schoolteacher. My father wanted to get married. His sister =
wrote him about my mother, saying that she was a lovely girl. So he =
travelled to Czernowitz in 1894, when he was 28 years old. He visited =
the Brunstein=E2=80=99s and met my mother. He fell in love with her =
from the moment he first laid eyes on her, but the feeling was not =
reciprocated. My father was well-built, of middle height, with red hair =
and a red complexion, and a very clever but not pretty face. My mother =
was twenty years old and still looking after the Brunstein children, who =
were by then ten and twelve years of age. =20
Grandpa Brunstein (note: he was not a direct relative but had more or =
less adopted the Schwarzwald children when their mother died) informed =
himself about my father, and given that he got back very good reports =
about my father=E2=80=99s character and position, he was in favour of =
the marriage. And my mother agreed too =E2=80=93 she thought the =
marriage would be better than caring for Fritz and Dulia Brunstein. She =
was right. It was a happy marriage. =20
At that time giving a dowry was custom. The Brunstein=E2=80=99s gave a =
very nice sum to my father as dowry =E2=80=93 I think ten thousand =
guldens - even though the Brunstein=E2=80=99s were not my mother=E2=80=99s=
parents. Again, anticipating events, before and during the First World =
War when the big firm Brunstein had financial difficulties (Czernowitz =
was twice occupied by the Russians and later became part of Romania), my =
father paid back the dowry, considerably augmenting the sum. =20
The wedding took place in Czernowitz and they settled in Dombo, where my =
father managed the sawmill for Baron Popper.=E2=80=9D
Best Regards,
David Dukes
> On 12 Mar 2020, at 13:20, Shula 2 <shulaklinger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hi Julian,
>=20
> Perhaps I might share what I was told...
>=20
> My grandmother was born in Czernowitz in 1902, and raised her own =
children in Egypt. There was next to no ritual in their household; they =
were definitely secular Jews.
>=20
> My aunt - my father=E2=80=99s older sister - said that she was brought =
up according to the traditions of her mother=E2=80=99s teenage years, =
which meant that a young lady needed a chaperone when stepping out with =
a gentleman. Socialising alone was out of the question.
>=20
> My father shared the view that young adult women needed close =
supervision; I was only permitted to meet a boy for hot chocolate - aged =
16 - after being dropped off by my entire family, including my two older =
brothers....=20
>=20
> Kind regards,
>=20
> Shula
>=20
>
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