RE: [Cz-L] Should Jews live in Czernowitz?

With my 'restituted' family house in Olomouc, albeit with 6 low-rent tenants (now 2 zero-rent ones: my wife and me!), I count myself incredibly lucky, and hugely grateful to my late mother's efforts and the Czech state. Have any of you Czernowitzers made a serious attempt at getting this kind of restitution? Is it a non-starter?

Charles Polak
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From: bounce-72589410-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-72589410-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Heger
Sent: 16 January 2013 13:21
To: HARDY BREIER
Cc: Miriam Taylor; CZERNOWITZ-L
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Should Jews live in Czernowitz?

I agree with Mimi, everyone should live where he pleases. There is one
aspect, which was not considered in the many letters about this issue, and
that is, the feeling to see the house your father built and you lived in,
and now somebody else grasped it. It reminded me of the biblical rule to
exempt from war service those people who were in similar situations:
The officers shall say to the army: =93Has anyone built a new house and not
yet begun to live in it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and
someone else may begin to live in it. 6 Has anyone planted a vineyard and
not begun to enjoy it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone
else enjoy it. 7 Has anyone become pledged to a woman and not married her?
Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else marry her.=94
Deuteronomy (Devarim) 5: 7
I felt it, at my last visit in Czernowitz in 2009
Paul

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