the ORT in Bukovina and Bessarabia

In my Inbox this morning was an email from one Alexandra Nichitean with two photos and a link. Both photos are presumably from the ORT in Czernowitz. The one of the girls on the steps we have posted before, but the Chess game photo is new: Perhaps someone can identify people in this photo?

chessCzORT

This chess photo and the photo taken on the steps of the ORT in Czernowitz are part of a collection of 28 very interesting photos accessible through the link directly below:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.385347164883802.95502.183296198422234&type=3
I believe the remaining 26 photos are all from Bessarabia, but I don’t know that for sure

The source of the collection comes from: http://www.ozet.ort.spb.ru/ Which contains hundreds of photos and a wealth of other information about the ORT (in several languages).

jerome

Josef Burg and Czernowitz – book reveiw

From Ossi Horovitz

In the German Romanian journal “Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung fuer Rumaenien” (January 31, 2013) I found a paper “Jiddisch aus dem Jenseits”, a recension of a book about Josef Burg and Czernowitz. I send you the scanned paper; if you think, it could be interesting for the German speaking (or reading) members of our Czernowitz list.

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ossi

1919 Historical Documents in German

I received an email from List member Alex Denisenko, who sent along what looks like some interesting documents from 1919 Czernowitz/Sadagora :

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Dear Jerome,
These are scans of documents of American shipping company that operated in Czernowitz.
Do you know anything more about its operation? They might be of interest to CZ group members.
Regards,
Alex Denisenko

In a subsequent email Alex said:
To the best of my knowledge the company’s office was housed in the beginning of Synagogegasse, in the house that was nick named “Canada”.
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I made a pdf of the documents so you can access them and be able to magnify them, etc. The question is (because I am Germanically challenged), is: What significance would these documents be to researchers, and if appropriate, would the ‘Stories, Histories, Documents’ section on our Website be a good home for them? A summary of what the documents are about, not an exact translation, is what I need. Are all the pages of this correspondence connected? And does anyone know any more about the shipping company?

You will need Acrobat Reader or it’s equivalent to view the pdf file. Click on the link below:

Documents1919b

You can respond on List or with comments below — thanks

jerome