[Cz-L] About Zastawna from Encyclopaedia Judaica

Excerpted facts about Zastawna
from the Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971), vol. 16

Jews probably settled in Zastavna toward the end of Moldavian rule.
There were Jews living in the town at the beginning of Austrian rule.
According to the Austrian census they numbered 17 in 1774 and 33
in 1776.
An organized community was established in the early 19th century,
though tombstones in the cemetery attest to regular community life
before that period.

A Jewish elementary school was established in 1919, and
a synagogue was built in 1926. In Zastavna, as in other communities
of Bukovina, Hasidism had a considerable influence.
A Zionist organization was established in Zastavna in 1905.
Jews took part in the municipal elections and for some time the town
had a Jewish mayor.
The Jews in Zastavna were mainly engaged in commerce and crafts,
but toward the end of Austrian rule also included wealthy landowners
and industrialists (in sugar and alcohol manufacture).
The community of Zastavna had jurisdiction over 29 nearby villages,
where also lived Jewish landowners.

At the beginning of World War I, in 1914, many of the Jews living
in Zastavna escaped to Vienna, and most did not return.

Holocaust and Contemporary Periods.
[deportations to Transnistria]

During the Holocaust period (1941-44) the 635 Jews in Zastavna,
like other Jews in Bukovina, were deported to Transnistria.
After the war about 120 survivors returned, their number
gradually diminished through emigration to Israel and elsewhere.
  By 1971 no Jews remained in Zastavna.

Mimi
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