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

My father, late Oscar Kraft, had a childhood friend, Gustav Yavetz. They
were junior high students at a high school in Cz ( the one near Teatralna
square) just before the war. They also continued their friendship during the
Soviet times in Cz..
Gustav Yavetz worked as a teacher of mathematics and then we all emigrated
in the early 70s to Israel were he continued working as a math teacher.

I can ask my mother whether she has the Yavets' family phone number.

Serah Kraft

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael kransdorff" <mkransdorff_at_gmail.com>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 8:19 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Bukovina Ya'avetzs in the news

>
> 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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