Re: [Cz-L] 600th Anniv. presentation (long)

Thanks for remarks,
   I am aware that the Holocaust pictures are not from Czernowitz.
     As much as I tried, could not find pictures from the Ghetto or
   from that period , if somebody can send me I can redo that chapter.
     Music : Not every musical score was adapted for historic allegations.
    Sometimes the tune or rythm is what counted.
       The presentation was made public in order to get your reactions.
     Will try to make all the relevant amendments.
         We will do it ,although the chances of having the slide-show in
          Czernowitz are slim at the moment.
           The animated candle in the cemetery - candles go well with
cemeteries.
              Kitsch ? The entire presentation media is based on kitsch.
                 Keep in mind the target public who will come and watch.
                   If it comes to it.
                            Hardy
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From: "Marianne Hirsch" <mh2349_at_columbia.edu>
To: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
Cc: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>; <bir1_at_cornell.edu>; "hardy.breier"
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] 600th Anniv. presentation (long)


> Dear Hardy, Bruce and Jerome;
>
> This is an impressive achievement and truly a labor of love. You deserve
> congratulations and our gratitude.
>
> I am sure that you will get a variety of responses. Here are some of our
> thoughts -- please take them in the spirit of constructive suggestions
> rather than critique:
>
> 1. We wonder if list members have a few additional pre-20th century
> images -- presently the show is quite contemporary. We would suggest
> cutting some of the slides from 2007 in favor of earlier images, since
> people in Chernivtsi are well aware of the present-day look of their
> city. Some obvious image are missing : das juedische Haus, for example,
> with the staircase and the cut off Jewish star; the theater, the
> railway station, all beautiful examples of Habsburg Czernowitz
> architecture when Jewish life was thriving there. Also plaques on Rosa
> Auslander's house and Selma Meerbaum Eisinger's -- the advantage being to
> alert present-day inhabitants to these markers of Jewish presence in the
> city, and particularly to notable Jewish women.
>
> 2. The Holocaust: We would strongly urge you to change that segment. The
> Holocaust in Cernauti was of a very different character than the
> Holocuast in Poland, Hungary etc. and your images blur those very
> important historical distinctions. It would be important to show the
> Cernauti ghetto, an image of the ordonanta to gather there, Jews wearing
> the yellow star in Cernauti in 1943 (you have one, but in the wrong
> place), and maps and images of Transnistria. We can send you these
> images. It is really really important to convey the particular character
> of the Holocaust in Cernauti and not to relativize this important aspect
> of Jewish history. The images of the destroyed temple are great, though
> the flames and the lit candle, to my eyes are a touch of kitsch, but that
> is a mater of taste.
>
> 3. Music: Please include popular songs and liturgical music by Josef
> Schmidt. there are recordings available online. Please please remove By
> the Rivers of Babylon -- very different foreign element. Is the
> implication that we, now, are in Babylon -- in a contemporary Babylonian
> captivity -- or that Czernowitz was Babylon? Is the implication that
> Zion is "old" Cernowitz, or Palestine/Israel? Whichever: I love Marley
> and reggae, but the song is totally out of place in your usage. I also
> don't feel that Carmina Burana is appropriate here at all. Although not
> proven, Carl Orff, its composer, was a Nazi. Certainly, Carmina Burana
> was hugely popular in Nazi Germany after its premiere in Frankfurt in
> 1937.
>
> 4. There are many pictures from organizations and its Jewish Czerno
> members other than educational ones that might be included: Hashomer
> Hatzair, die Freimaurer, the various university "fraternities," etc.
> We -- and I'm sure other list members -- can supply you with a good
> selection of these.
>
> Again, thanks for taking this on. If nothing else, you've inspired us
> into a collaborative undertaking.
>
> Best,
> Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
>

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