Re: [Cz-L] Bukovina Ya'avetzs in the news

Thank you,
*very interesting indeed - and it sounds like Royalty having written to
Royalty. Rabbi Jacob Ben Zwi Emden - the first Ya'abetz - spelled correctly
in German Jawetz of the town Emden (son of another important Rabbi - Zwi
Ashkenazi), in North Germany, is believed to have been of the lineage of
King David. When I visited Emden (once also spelled Embden) I was shown
proudly a whole closet of books on Jacobus von Embden as the Ya'abetz is
held in high esteem by the city government that has a historian that
followed the subject.
*
The spelling Ya'avetz is a transcript of the name from its Hebrew original
and was introduced in Israel by Professor Zvi Ya'avetz in a way of
Hebraicising the name that he chose in Israel taking his mother's maiden
family name (they were from Czernowitz in the Bukovina) in order to have a
Hebrew name.

Another famous historian - Zeev Ya'abetz, who was not from the Bukovina,
chose a slightly different transcript using the "b" form (streets are named
after him in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. I assume that young Zvi chose the "v"
in order to accentuate the difference. I never knew about the Haifa
Ya'awetz family and I am a Czernowitz Jawetz myself. My father was also a
Zwi Jawetz in Jerusalem (in Czernowitz he was known as Herman or Hirsch
which is Zwi). The names Zwi and Jacob being two obvious choices in the
family. Interesting, I had an uncle Meir who ended up in New York - so it
is possible that this was a recurrent name as well. One Herbert (Hersh)
Yawitz I met lately in New York.

In fact, when US Senator from New York Jacob Javits, whose father was a
Jawetz from neighboring Eastern Galizia, came to Israel, a reunion of
Jawetzes was planned, and some archival material must have been collected
at that time. I would like thus as well to be put in contact with whoever
has access now to that material. The Jawetzes from North and South
Bukovina, as well as from Germany, both Galizias, Poland and the Baltic
States are now all over the world. I discovered on my google a list of
people in the countries of the Southern cone of Latin America, and actually
met two families in South Africa that were not related to each other - so
far as they knew. A very interesting case happened to be when I met General
Haiim Jawetz who got to Israel from Egypt - but it turned out that via
Istanbul the family actually originated from Galizia and a branch includes
the Jabes of France etc. etc. A look at the different spellings is a lesson
in Jewish history.

With best wishes to all,
Pincas Jawetz
the Pincas was given to me because of my maternal grand father who
immigrated to the US but returned home to Bukowina.

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On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:19 AM, michael kransdorff <mkransdorff_at_gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I have been following this interesting story on Haaretz about an
> Israeli girl who was a 'pen pal' to King George V. I am sharing it with the
> list because they have discovered that her family is from Bukovina. I guess
> royalist (not only to the Hapsburgs) tendencies are in our blood.
>
> Also of relevance to me, the article mentions that the Ya'avetzs are
> descendants of Rabbi Jacob Emdin. I have Jawitz family and we also claim to
> be descended from Rabbi Emdin.
>
> So does anyone know anything about the Bukovina Ya'avetzs? Can you put me
> in touch with them?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Michael
>
>
> Identity of King George V's penpal discovered
> Haaretz published a letter that Yehudit Ya'avetz, 12, of Haifa wrote
> to King George V of England in 1935, after it was discovered in
> Israel's State Archives. Our readers were called upon to help trace
> Ya'avetz's footsteps, and lead to the revelation of a moving,
> historical tale.
>
>
> http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/identity-of-king-george-v-s-penpal-discovered.premium-1.502283
>
> Thanks to our readers efforts, the identity of the girl who wrote the
> congratulatory letter to the British King was brought to light, after
> it was published last week.
>
> Yehudit Ya'avetz wrote the letter in 1935, while she was 12, in
> Hebrew. She sent it from Haifa, to where she had emigrated two years
> previously from Germany. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of
> his coronation, Ya'avetz thanked the king for helping the Jewish
> people "to establish their national home and to repair the ruins of
> our Holy Land under the patronage of His Majesty."
>
> Haaretz published the letter after it was revealed on a State Archives
> blog commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Nazis rise to power and
> the subsequent immigration of the Yekkes, the German Jews, to Israel.
>
> Many readers answered Haaretz's call to assist in locating Yehudit,
> and the details provided by one of them, genealogist Eli Melitz -
> helped find her. The details he provided Haaretz led to contact with
> Yehudit's daughter, Dr. Nira Reiss. Yehudit, it turns out, is no
> longer alive. She passed away in 1981, while in her late 50s.
>
> Yehudit Ya'avetz was born in Manheim, Germany, in 1923. Her father,
> Meir, was a descendant of Rabbi Jacob Emden, who was known as the
> Ya'avetz and was one of the greatest rabbis of the 18th century.
>
> Meir grew up in Bukovina, Romania. He was sent to Manheim to recover
> from a gunshot wound in his leg while he was serving in Italy as an
> officer of the Austro-Hungarian army during World War One.
>
> Meir met Yehudit's mother, Esther, in Germany. Esther was born in
> Poland and came to Manheim as a youth to help her brother, who was a
> watchmaker, in his shop. The two married and had two daughters:
> Yehudit and Devora.
>
> When Yehudit was 10, in 1933, the family immigrated to the Land of
> Israel and settled in Haifa. The father, who was a Zionist, chose
> Israel even though his father, his brother and his sister immigrated
> to the United States. He found work as a court translator, thanks to
> his command of several languages.
>
> Meir taught his daughter Yehudit Hebrew from an early age. And so, by
> the time she was 12, Yehudit was able to write King George V a letter
> in eloquent, beautiful language. "We are hereby contented in the land
> of our forefathers, and we feel ourselves safe, under the patronage of
> His Majesty," she wrote in a formal style. "I apologize dearly that my
> knowledge of the English language is still insufficient to express my
> feelings in this language, but I hope that the lilt of the Hebrew
> language will intermingle in the ears of His Majesty."
>
> Why did the refugee girl from Germany decide to write King George V?
> Her daughter Nira speculates that the letter was not Yehudit's
> initiative, but rather was written as part of a project at her school.
> Haaretz received documents from additional archives attesting that in
> the same year, which was the occasion of the king's Silver Jubilee,
> several letters of congratulations were sent to him from the Land of
> Israel.
>
> It was in the same year that the name King George V was given to the
> street in Tel Aviv formerly known as Hacarmel Street.
>
> Upon completing her studies, Yehudit worked as a secretary in the
> offices of the British Navy in the German Colony neighborhood at
> Haifa, and married Shlomo Reiss in 1945. "Since then she was a
> full-time mother," says her daughter. The two had four children:
> Yaakov, Talia, Michal and Nira.
>
> Yehudit was buried in 1981 in the old Carmel beach cemetery alongside
> her husband Shlomo, her parents Meir and Esther and her husband's
> parents - Yaakov and Sarah. Her descendants include grandchildren and
> great-grandchildren.
>
>
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