Czernowitzers... A new edition of “Die Stimme”, the monthly Newsletter for the Bukovinians, was published on 13-MAY-1945. Let's take a journey into the past together to comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back then! It had been less than a week since the end of the Second World War, but the Jews in Romania were already facing new and difficult challenges. „‚THE MANTUIREA CEASED‘. The Zionist weekly “Mântuirea” [The Salvation], which was published in Bucharest under the direction of Zissu, was shut down by order of the Romanian Government. According to information from the local Hebrew press, the Romanian authorities cited the pro-fascist stance of this paper as the reason for this measure. A very strange pretext to deprive a Zionist organ of the possibility of existence.” The hopes of Romanian Jewry for democratic change and the attainment of full civil rights faded when the Jewish Democratic Committee was founded as an offshoot of the Romanian Communist Party. According to Abraham Leib Zissu (1888-1956), one of the leaders of the Jewish Party of Romania, it was neither democratic nor Jewish. The editor of “Mântuirea”, an avant-garde Romanian writer, Zionist, political essayist, industrialist and philantropist, resisted all communist assaults. The “Mântuirea” was published until 1948, but Zissu was arrested in 1954 and sentenced to life imprisonment for alleged treason. He was pardoned in 1956 and was able to emigrate to Israel - seriously ill and scarred by the harsh imprisonment - where he died just a few weeks later on September 6, 1956. The funeral service was attended by Golda Meir, Yosef Sprinzak and Nahum Goldmann, who also gave the funeral oration. https://encyclopedia.yivo.org/article/1811 https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/tzaddik-rebellious-son-blake-smith https://www.difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:2d2039ed-fac7-4450-b9ae-cd8fac85519e Dr. Manfred Reifer founded the Chug Olej Bukovina [Association of Immigrants from Bukovina] and decided to publish “Die Stimme”. He entrusted with this task Elias Weinstein, the former editor of the renowned daily newspaper “Czernowitzer Morgenblatt”. I will try to let “Die Stmme” continue to resound in the future and invite you to follow me on this journey. Your comments are highly welcome! P.S.: By courtesy of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe (DiFMOE) "Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+" Digitization Project: https://www.difmoe.eu Edgar Hauster [MacBook] ******************************************************************************* This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. To remove your address from this e-list follow the directions at https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
