Re: [Cz-L] Stone with cross.

Dear Mimi,

you are right, the cross is not carved into the stone. What we see ist not the cross itself but the trace of the cross. Most likely it was made of metal, was added to the stone and was removed later. Either because it was stolen - like many metal-works vanish at the cemetery - or it was removed because somebody felt it to be inappropriate.

If we hopefuly meet next summer in Czernowitz I will show you the stone.

Christian

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> Datum: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:22:46 -0500
> Von: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> An: Christian Herrmann <cyberorange_at_gmx.de>
> CC: Merle Kastner <merlek_at_videotron.ca>, Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu, HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net
> Betreff: Re: [Cz-L] Stone with cross.

> In the Jewish cemetery in Czernowitz, I have never seen a cross
> on any of the gravestones. As others have noticed, this cross looks
> as if it was not engraved in the manner of the decorations and other
> writing
> on this gravestone.
>
> Most probably it was made much more recently as an act of vandalism.
> In the village of Banila, south of Czernowitz, I saw many gravestones
> with an incised cross in the Jewish cemetery.
> On those gravestones, the crosses were clearly of the same style
> as any writing or decoration on the rest of the stone.
> Possibly, those were the graves of Jews, who during the war, converted
> to Christianity, in order to escape deportation. Possibly, they were
> the graves
> of Jewish spouses of Christians, or Christian spouses of Jews.
> These may also be the graves of Subbotnicki.
>
> Mimi
>

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