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

If it was so in the USA imagine what the numbers were in Eastern Europe.
Everyone who is familiar with the Jewish life in those places can asses that
the number of 60 praying places in a place like Czernowitz is very much
UNDERESTIMATED.
  Yosef Eshet

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Roberts" <eroberts_at_mit.edu>
To: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Cc: "Edward Roberts" <eroberts_at_mit.edu>; "Christian Herrmann"
<cyberorange_at_gmx.de>; "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 1:18 AM
Subject: 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

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