Thank you for sharing these photos. It is always fascinating how differt views of the same things can be from alternate heights. Leah Snider
On Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 04:20:24 AM PDT, Edgar Hauster <[email protected]> wrote: Czernowitzers... A new edition of "Die Stimme", the monthly newspaper for the Bukovinians, was published on 01-OCT-1958. Let's take a journey into the past together to comprehend what moved our ancestors, their relatives and friends back then! My friend, Dr. Serhiy Osachuk, former Governor of Chernivtsi Oblast and now First Secretary at the Ukrainian Embassy in Prague, gave me the unique opportunity in 2009 to climb the Clock Tower of Chernivtsi City Hall and admire the panoramic view all around: https://www.amazon.de/photos/share/aqhRRtuWB0Zy87BP4VGpkpZYKMeKoAqLWYJgDgXmLnC You can follow here how the town hall tower has changed over the decades and centuries under various royal coats of arms and flags: https://www.amazon.de/photos/share/sLNnzBm5aSeyt7hnC0niq7VJxaiLHuX8GzPus7h8mmc If I had read "Die Stimme" in 2009 and known back then that "THE CZERNOWITZ CITY CLOCK" had been financed with Jewish in 1779 by the Jewish clockmaker Abraham Falk, I would have taken a much closer look at it. Two Czernowitz Governors: one grants me access to the clock tower, while the other one—230 years earlier—extorted money from the Jews of Czernowitz to build the clock tower. "Not only the residents of Czernowitz, but also any visitor who has even briefly stopped by the city, remembers the large clock that was mounted on the front of City Hall and announced the exact time—the city time—to all the city’s residents. But not everyone is familiar with the history of this clock. General Enzenberg, notorious for his anti-Semitic views and malicious intrigues, who served as the second military Governor of Bukovina—which had just been occupied by Austria—forced the Jewish community of Czernowitz to donate 100 Ducats for the purchase of a city clock. To cover up this abuse of power, he later compelled the intimidated Jewish community leaders of the city to issue a written statement claiming they had voluntarily provided the funds. The clock’s designer was also a Jew, named Abraham Falk. He was the first clockmaker in Bukovina." https://hauster.blogspot.com/2009/06/czernowitz-cernauti-czerniowce.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serhiy_Osachuk https://difmoe.eu/uuid/uuid:6df32e10-e613-41a6-9c76-e1d765b9c698 Dr. Manfred Reifer founded the Chug Olej Bukovina [Association of Immigrants from Bukovina] and decided to publish "Die Stimme". He entrusted with this task Dr. Elias Weinstein, the former editor of the renowned daily newspaper "Czernowitzer Morgenblatt". I will try to let "Die Stimme" continue to resound in the future and invite you to follow me on this journey. Your comments are highly welcome! Edgar Hauster [MacBook] P.S.: By courtesy of the Digital Forum Central and Eastern Europe (DiFMOE) "Jewish-German Bukovina 1918+" Digitization Project: https://www.difmoe.eu 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 these directions. https://it.cornell.edu/simplelists/manage-subscriptions To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected] 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 these directions. https://it.cornell.edu/simplelists/manage-subscriptions To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected]
