Re: [Cz-L] Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Dear Maita:

As I've written directly to you, I'm very glad you found us and that
we've found you. I'm sure our group will be most interested in
helping you. We've discussed our interest in having some recognition
of the Jewish contribution to the history of the city during the
600th Anniversary celebrations next year. Some group members have
been in direct contact with City Councilor Volodymyr Kylynych on this
subject. We have been doubtful that the city would do much to
recognize it's place as a center of multiculturalism and tolerance in
the past, with very significant Jewish contributions at all levels,
but your email gives us hope.

I don't pretend to speak for everyone in the group, but when you ask
whether our group is interested in the German speaking Jews, or
Yiddish speaking Jews, I would say "all Jews", many of whom spoke
multiple languages. There were many who moved from Galicia to
Bukovina, and other parts of Romania into Bukovina. There were/are
Russian/Ukrainian speaking Jews. To me, our interest is in ALL Jews,
no matter what language they spoke. There was a Jewish presence in
Czernowitz from hundreds of years ago, and this presence dramatically
increased during the Austrian period. A Jewish exhibit focusing on
relics of the past, and even tying them to the holocaust through the
present, would be a wonderful contribution to the 600th Anniversary
celebration. I'm sure other ethnic groups (Romanians, Germans,
Hutsuls, Gypsies, Ruthenians etc.) would warrant appropriate levels
of attention as well, since Czernowitz was truly once a multicultural
community.

Thank you again for your interest,

Bruce

At 16:24 +0300 11/29/07, Maita Prout wrote:
>Hello everybody,
> My name is Maita, and I am a retired attorney and United States Peace
>Corps volunteer living in Chernivtsi. I am working with the City of
>Chernivtsi and a Jewish organization (under the leadership of Natalia
>Shevchenko), who are in cooperation planning to open a Jewish museum in
>Chernivtsi, and, more immediately, prepare an exhibition for the city's 600
>year anniversary celebration in 2008.

  -snip -

>
>Sincerely,
>Maita Prout
>United States Peace Corps Volunteer
>Chernivtsi, Ukraine
>maitaprout_at_gmail.com

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