A thousand persons, 900 of them Jews, who had gained Rumanian citizenship under international treaties of 1920 and 1924 have been stripped of their nationality by the police of Czernowitz acting under ...
One hundred years ago, the great classical Yiddish writer I.L. Peretz declared Yiddish the national Jewish language, a tongue and a culture that had transcended the boundaries of the nation-state.
About 25,000 Jews remain in the city of Czernowitz, capital of the province of Bukovina – the survivors of a Jewish population of more than 80,000 – it is reported here by the noted Soviet war ...
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