Hi Jim... I can't help you with the terminology question, but as for the
maps... yes indeed, the Reilly atlas is one of the best, so please
forward hi-rez scans of the new maps and I'll put them immediately on
Ehpes and make the originals available for downloading fro the website.
Best,
jerome
On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 20:12 -0500, Jim Wald wrote:
> All:
>
> Interested, as always, to read the many messages, even if I haven't
> contributed lately.
>
> That reminds me:
>
> (1) I was very pleased to see recent mention of a Bukovina gathering at
> the Jewish Genealogical Society in Boston this summer. (I put in a
> proposal for a paper; will see what happens. In any case, it's in
> Boston, only a couple of hours away.
>
> (2) I recently acquired some more maps from the late 18th-century Reilly
> atlas, whose Bukovina page I scanned. I can now add some of the
> bordering regions of Moldavia, Bessarabia, Galicia, if that proves useful.
>
> At any rate, I have just a quick question.
>
> I am writing up a little something on a German Bar Mitzvah inscription
> to a Jewish boy from his (presumably) non-Jewish classmates in the late
> 19th century. They describe themselves as the "Secunda," a reference to
> a class in a school. So far, so good.
>
> My question for the native speakers (or just social historians) is: can
> we with reasonable certainty conclude that this is a KuK school rather
> than a German (Prussian Empire) one?
>
> As far as I have always understood it, historical German school class
> designations ran in reverse order, i.e. Prima was the top or graduating
> class, whereas in Austria, one began with Prima and ended with Oktava (+
> Matura). This would also correspond to the appropriate age of a Bar Mitzvah.
>
> Just thought I'd double-check (you know, the brain gets tired).
>
> Jim
>
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