Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

Eine Schwalbe macht kein Sommer
one Swallow does not make a summer
As individuals visiting for few days it would not be
expected any antisemitic onlaught.
I and my brother visited the village of Pohorlauti
where my grandparents were landowners who
could trace theyre lineage back a long time in the
past. There was always a harmonious relationship
with the locals. However come 1941 my grandmother
and many of my family in Zastawna were hideously murdered.
On my & my brothers visit we were told that it was the others
who did these heineous deeds we knew nothing at all.
Yet, we had some wonderfull Christian friends who during
the initial period when you could not leave the house bring
food & news. Even some peasants from the village brought
vegetable & live chicken because they knew about Kosher.
However, you should visit the many villages & towns where the
Roumanians & Germans did not have to intervene the locals did
a better job. I do not have to brush a country but let not disregard
history past or present.Antisemitic sentiments have not changed
look at the poison in Western Europe under the guise of anti Israel.
I am glad some persons live in Schlarafenland (Utopia).
Fred. Weisinger

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From: "mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; 'Jacob Greenberg' <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

This is in answer to Hardy and others who speculate
about antisemitism in Chernivtsi at present.
The number of Jewish residents of the city is currently about 1500.
At least 2/two members of the city council are Jewish.
The total population of Chernivtsi is around 200 000.
I do not know the total number of city councilors,
but estimate it to be less than 40 people.
So: The percentage of Jews in the city is less than 1%.
The percentage of Jews elected to the city council is
at least 5%, it follows that non-Jews elect Jews.

As I have written before, I am in Chernivtsi frequently
The people I come in contact with, all know that I am Jewish,
Not once has anyone treated me with the least hint of Anti-Semitism.
Are there any Anti-Semites in Chernivtsi?
I do not know, but there probably are.
Are they a large majority?
No. The people who now live in the apartment in which I lived
during the war, have a daughter who married a Jewish man
and now lives happily in Israel. Last year at the cemetery
I met a woman who had come to visit from Israel.
Her daughter married to Ukrainian man, lives happily in Chernivtsi.

If we are to talk about Chmielnitzki and events which happened in 1648,
let us also talk about the expulsion from Spain and Portugal,
the expulsion from the city of Lincoln in England,
the murder of Jews during the crusades, and on and on.....

While it is understandable that we are suspicious and wary,
It is wrong and harmful to consider everyone our enemy.

Mimi
Quoting HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>:

> Quote:
> ",and the locals whom I met were
> of the opinion that the community is growing,"
>  Opinion ?
>  Numbers !
>  Nobody knows exactly how many jews live today in Cz,
>    Because many do not register as such.
>    And you know why ?
> Hardy
>
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