Dear Iosif,
Thank you very much for bringing this article to our attention.
It gave me great pleasure to read it and because so many of
the members of this list do not read German,
I will translate some paragraphs:
A trip to Czernowitz, Ukrainian Chernivtsi, starts in one's own library.
Hardly any other provincial city has produced so many poets and
thinkers as the old capital of the Bukovina: The lyricists Paul Celan
and Rose Auslander, the famous biochemist and essayist
Erwin Chargaff were born here, the authors Karl Emil Franzos
and Mihai Eminescu as well as the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich
went to school here. Not without reason, is the city at the Pruth
designated as "The city of the dead poets".
The city in the south-west of the country is a myth, a lost world.
Its former atmosphere, formed by the mixture of various languages
and cultures, can currently be found mostly in books, stories and poems,
inhabited by a type of Nostalgia. And this despite the fact that the =20
walls
of the city have mostly outlasted the storm of the second World War.
........ The rise of Czernowitz from a far-flung provincial town
to a multiethnic city, happened at a rapid pace and came to an end
only with the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian double monarchy.
Already in the 18th century, Czernowitz got a school, a post office
and even a coffee-house, soon afterwards - a civil hospital, hotels =20
and stores.
If the number of inhabitants was relatively small in 1857 - about 22 =20
000 people,
by the eve of the First World War, the number had risen to 90 000 =20
people.
At the same time, the Jewish population rose to be a third of the total.
I will translate more tomorrow,
Mimi
On Feb 1, 2013, at 1:10 PM, iosif vaisman wrote:
> Yet another Czernowitz travelog:
>
> Georg Christoph Heilingsetzer, "Eine versunkene Welt =96 der Mythos =
von
> Czernowitz", Die Welt, 12.01.2013
> (http://www.welt.de/reise/staedtereisen/article112703923/Eine-=20
> versunkene-Welt-der-Mythos-von-Czernowitz.html)
>
> Iosif
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