RE: [Cz-L] Moghilev Podolsk

Having been there several months ago I can attest to the following:
There is a functioning synagogue, mostly attended by elderly, with an
adjacent kitchen and food care packages which they get monthly in the many
dozens from some aid organization (see pictures). There also is a small
museum quite far away from the location of the synagogue with some
interesting maps and lists of the cemetery that are kept in a safe and are
not easily accessible. The cemetery has two parts. The new one is well
maintained, the old (war time) one is not! It is hardly accessible, most
stones bent over or missing (many more missing than appear in lists that
were made after (!) the war), some burried under ground. The site itself is
relatively clean - no trees, just grass and a few goats that take care of
that.
Take a look at quite a lot of pictures of the city, synagogue, cemetery and
museum which I took of Mogilev and are now stored in the EHPES site with the
help of Jerome.

Gadi

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Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:15 AM
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Subject: [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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