Re: [Cz-L] The Lost Synagogues of Czernowitz

I came from Chelsea, Massachusetts, which at its heyday in the 1930s had 50,000 people and probably 20,000 Jews. It had 30 synagogues all active at the same time. A minyan was frequently sufficient to create a new synagogue from one shtetl :-)
Ed Roberts

On Mar 20, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Miriam Taylor wrote:

> Hello Christian,
>
> Thanks for researching Czernowitz, but you may have set yourself
> an unattainable goal. I very much doubt that Czernowitz at anyone time
> was home to 60 synagogues. If we assume that some synagogues
> were destroyed or abandoned and others were built to take their place,
> it is possible that over a span of 2 years; from 1775 till now,
> there might have been a total of 25 prayer houses and synagogues,
> but not all functioning at the same time.
> Had 60 synagogues or prayer houses been built in Czernowitz between
> 1775 and 1940, they would have had to build one new prayer house
> or synagogue, more frequently than one every three years.
>
> Wir Czernowitzer leben gerne auf großen Fuß und wir sind gerne grandios
> aber wir waren weder so religiös, noch so reich um ein neues Gebethaus
> jede drei Jahre zu bauen.
>
> All the best,
>
> Mimi
>
>
>
> On 3/20/13 2:05 AM, "Christian Herrmann" <cyberorange_at_gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> A new blog post on Vanished World: The Chabad community of Czernowitz has
>> compiled an impressive list of Jewish related sites in the city and published
>> it. Using this list, I was strolling through the streets of the city in August
>> 2012. Often these traces can only be suspected, but sometimes they are also
>> obvious. From the former 60 synagogues and prayer houses many are still there.
>>
>> Your help is needed to confirm that this buildings have been synagogues
>> before. Does someone remember?
>>
>> http://vanishedworld.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/the-lost-synagogues-of-czernowit
>> z/
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Christian
>>
>

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