[Cz-L] Moghilev Podolsk

A few days ago, I attended some of the talks given at a conference
named: " Going to the people: Jews and the Ethnografic Impulse".
Most of the talks were presented by scholars who had recorded
native Yiddish speakers and singers in Israel, Ukraine, Moldova,
Lithuania and Beloruss.

Some of what I heard may be of interest to our list:

Apparently the current Jewish community of Moghilev Podolsk,
now has a functioning synagogue, an active community and they
take good care of the cemetery in which many or our relatives are
interred.

Apparently, before WW2, the Yiddish language had started to be less used
among the Jews of Transnistria. But with influx of Jews from the
Bukovina,
in the years 1941, 1942, the use of Yiddish increased and currently
occupies
an honored, almost religious place in the view of the Transnistria Jews.

Alexandra Poljan, a researcher from the Moscow State University,
spoke about:
"The use of Hebrew and Yiddish in the Rituals
  of the Contemporary Jewry of Bukovina and Bessarabia".

She has a general interest in the use of Hebrew and Yiddish by
Bukovinian and Besserabian Jews.

I told her about our list and the EHPES website and she may write
to those of us who's archived letters on EHPES will be of interest to
her.

Mimi

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