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Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory - Historical Jewish Literature for Book Clubs & Academic Studies
Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory - Historical Jewish Literature for Book Clubs & Academic Studies

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In modern-day Ukraine, east of the Carpathian Mountains, there is an invisible city. Known as Czernowitz, the “Vienna of the East” under the Habsburg empire, this vibrant Jewish-German Eastern European culture vanished after World War II―yet an idealized version lives on, suspended in the memories of its dispersed people and passed down to their children like a precious and haunted heirloom. In this original blend of history and communal memoir, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer chronicle the city's survival in personal, familial, and cultural memory. They find evidence of a cosmopolitan culture of nostalgic lore―but also of oppression, shattered promises, and shadows of the Holocaust in Romania. Hirsch and Spitzer present the first historical account of Jewish Czernowitz in the English language and offer a profound analysis of memory's echo across generations.

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About ten years ago we were able to see a German documentaryon post-Shoah Czernowitz. Till then the city had been the site ofthe 1908 Yiddish Language Conference, but after watching thedocumentary, Czernowitz became a bastion of German language and culturethat had marked as well it's relatively large Jewish community.We had to wait several years to visit Czernowitz,till a flight from Kiev made the city easily accesible. We found an Ukranian city that was trying to preserve its sixcenturies of history and its Habsburgian days and we were able toretrace its Jewish past, that is slowly fading away. Back from our trip we were lucky to find Marianne Hisch and Leo Spizer's book "Ghosts of Home. The Afterlife of Czernowitz inJewish Memory". and through its pages we got acquainted with therecent and painful past of its Jewish community. The streets,houses, buildings, memorials that we had just seen, acquired anew life through the book's pages, that mark the days and years ofa family and its friends going trhough the hell of the "special"Romanian Holocaust. The authors' visits to the city helped us tosee Czernowitz in a different perspective, as "Ghosts of Home"is a book that brings back the reality of midcentury lifein one of the many corners of Europe that perished forever, andmore important, it gives us a glimpse of the strength and couragethat enabled some people to face a period that nobody could haveforeseen.