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Czernowitz Old Choral Synagogue

The General Assembly of the “Czernowitz Old Choral Synagogue” and the elections for the board took place in April 1934. 96 out of 117 members attended the assembly and elected, under the direction of state prosecutor Axani (?!), as follows:

Osias Pohoryles, farmer – president
Samuel Gottlieb, industrialist – vice president
Jakob Peritz, industrial magnate – commitee member
Josef Wiznitzer, industrial magnate – commitee member
Moses Barabasch, exporter – commitee member
Jakob Jurgrau, storehouse owner – commitee member
Mechel Kottlar, exporter – commitee member
Salomon Picker, house owner – commitee member
Dr. Markus Rudich, lawyer – commitee member
Mechel Brender, industrialist – commitee member
Jakob Neumann, magistrate director – commitee member
J. J. Dawer, industrialist – commitee member
Schulim Brender, businessman – commitee member

The pictures are dated 2006 and 2008, but in January 2007, David Glynn from London wrote a most interesting mail on the “Chor Schul”:

http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/czernowitz12/testfile2007/0275.html

A Czernowitzer on Java!

In the 1930s, the Czernowitzer Julius Fuhrmann was the bandleader of the famous Julien Foorman Orchestra performing at the legendary Hotel der Nederlanden in Batavia.

Czernowitz: http://czernowitzdaily.blogspot.de/2012/03/blog-post_20.html
Batavia: http://kranten.kb.nl/
Singapore: http://newspapers.nl.sg/
Maritime: http://www.maritiemdigitaal.nl/

Rudolf Spielmann – The Chess Player of the Romantic School

Karlsbad 1907
Sitting left-to-right: Rubinstein, Marco, Fähndrich, Tschigorin, Schlechter, Hoffer, Tietz, Maroczy, Janowski, Neustadtl, Drobny, Marshall.
Standing left-to-right: Nimzowitsch, Wolf, Mieses, E. Crohn, P. Johner, Leonhardt, Salwe, Vidmar, Berger, Spielmann, Dus Chotimirski, Tartakower, Olland.