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i don't think this Vizhnytza is Vizhnitz that is in Romania.
is Bukovina in Rumania? I thought that too was in Ukraine. Vizhnitz is Bukovina.
yes Romania but the border when back and forth. Need to double check, ask some Vizhnitzer where is the former Vizhnitz now?
i was in chernovtzi 4 a shabbos a few years back. this kofmansky makes like a rebbe and takes money to give brochos to goyim. this i saw with my own eyes. The shliach there told me that this guy is married to a shiksa. he learnt his shtick in Israel where he was an aide for some rosh yeshiva
i think it is the Vizhnitz, take a look here
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/...k/
buk2_120.html
Chernovtsi aka Tchernowitz is the main city of Bukovina and was part of Rumania in the interwar years. Before that it was a special unit of Austria,i.e. neither Hungary nor Galicia, etc., and for that reason most native Jews were German speaking. Subsequently, the Jewish population became predominantly Bessarabian. Vizhnitsa was a shtetl not far away.
"The army destroyed the entire cemetery. They smashed all the headstones - as well as the small ohel on Yisroel of Rizhin's grave, which they dug up, and they made off with his bones."
From here:
http://asimplejew.blogspot.com/2...orld-war-
i.html
simple, it speaks there about Sadigora nor Chernovitz. Here it says the kever is in Chernovitz. It could be broken telephone though.
To make this more complicated in Russia we always spoke about two difrent Chernovitz, this one is Bukovina/Carpathian/Romanina/Western Ukraine and then there is another Chernovitz in Ukraine proper.
The Internation Jewish Cemetery Project indicates that his kever is in Sadigora:
See here:
http://www.jewishgen.org/cemeter...ope/ukra-
s.html
"The earliest known Jewish Community was 18th century. 1939 Jewish population (census) was 1488. Living here was Rabbi Israel Friedman from Ruzhin (1840.) Buried in unlandmarked cemetery are Rabbi Israel and his sons."
Chernovitz is the capital of the Bukovina region. The northern part of Bukovina belongs to Ukraine while the Southern part belongs to Romania.
During the inter-war years the entire Bukovina belonged to Romania.
Pre WWI, the entire Bukowina was a crown land of the Austrian Empire, with German the spoken language of the general population.
check out www.bukowina.org.il
It is the site of the World Union of Bukovinan Jews.
and vynitza is not VIZHNITZ
German was never the spoken language of the populace, only of the better-educated classes, and even then often as a second language. Vinitza is not related to Vizhnitsa, the former is a city whereas the latter is a small town.
Pictures of what the kever used to look like back in the 1980's can be found here:
http://asimplejew.blogspot.com/2...a-then-
now.html
The tziun is in Sadagura which is a suburb of Chernovitz.
Dear A Simple Jew, did you ever come to this blog without an implicit goal of providing a link back to your site? I don't think there was one time you came here just to hang out with us. It is always a link of some sort... How utilitarian.
From what I understand during Austrian Rule which lasted several hundred years the official language and the one appearing on all documents was German.
bochur,
You can't even sign your real name but instead you post some lashon hara? Maybe instead of sitting around on the internet, a 'holy' bochur such as yourself should get back to the zal.
very nice photos
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