01 January 2015

"A Sanguine Bunch" • Regional Identification in Habsburg Bukovina, 1774-1919



Abstract: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the small and easternmost crownland of Bukovina was exceptional in many ways. It was a new addition to the Imperial territory and very much a Habsburg creation: never before had the area been a separate entity. Colonisation efforts added a large number of immigrants to the uneducated peasant population. During the final decades of the Empire’s existence, Bukovina was consciously deployed as a pars pro toto for a utopian Austria in which interethnic harmony and tolerance prevailed: both in- and outside the crownland, the commonplace of ‘Little Austria’ with its Viennese orientation and its vibrant cultural life gained ground. During and after the Habsburg era, numerous studies have appeared on the ethnical composition of Bukovina, the dominance of nationalist theory has led to separate analyses of Habsburg Bukovina’s ‘nationalities’. Ironically, the binding element, the ‘Bukovinianness’ of the crownland and its inhabitants is thus ignored. This particular study focuses on the different identification processes at work and on the question what ‘Bukovinianness’ really encompassed.

Courtesy: University of Amsterdam - Digital Academic Repository

13 December 2014

BUCOVINA SUB STĂPÂNIRE AUSTRIACĂ • Bukovina Under Austrian Rule





  • Bukovina, Sweet Bukovina [6]
  • Bukovina, From a Region Preponderantly Inhabited by Romanians to a Multiethnic Mosaic [29]
  • Czernowitz: Little Vienna of the East [33]
  • The Population of Bukovina During the Austrian Rule (1774-1918) [36]
  • The Austrian Pearl of Bukovina at the Point of Collapse [45]
  • Putna, 1871: The First Congress of Students From All Quarters [48]
  • Fundul Moldovei, Ten Years After the Great Union Day [52]
  • Iacobeni in Bukovina: Glorious Years During the Austrian Rule [60]
  • The Strategical Dimension of Bukovina [63]

Courtesy: http://www.historia.ro/

20 July 2014

Jubilee Edition Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the [Czernowitz] Temple, Chanukah 5698 / November 28, 1937

Ediția festivă inchinată jubileului de 60 de ani dela înaugurarea Templului

http://hauster.de/data/CzernowitzTempleOriginal.pdf
http://hauster.de/data/CzernowitzTemple.pdf
    The ceremonies and the publishing of the anniversary edition... [4]
    ...took place on the initiative of: [5]
    60 Years Temple by Dr. Carl Gutherz [6]
    Our Temple - From an Aesthetic Point of View by Dr. Abraham I. Mark [7]
    The Jewish Community Council in 1877 [10]
    The Jewish Community Council in 1937 [10]
    Temple Commitee 1937 [11]
    60 Years Temple Celebratory Poem by Eduard Perlstein [12]
    How the Construction of the Temple Occured by Dr. Max Diamant [14]
    Interior Views of the Temple [15]
    About the Origins of the Community Temple by Moritz Liquornik [18]
    The Names of the Hundred who Built the House of God [21]
    Consecration of the New Temple of Czernowitz by Councilor Anton Zachar [22]
    Celebratory Poem on the Laying of the First Stone for the Israelite Temple on May 8, 1873 by Dr. Plohn [23]
    The Images of the Founders [24]
    The Temple and its Preachers by Dr. Mayer Ebner [28]
    Our Religious and Spiritual Leaders Since the Foundation of the Temple [29]
    In Rememberance of Rabbi Dr. Igel by Dr. Josef Bierer [31]
    Dr. Lazar Elias Igel, the First Chief Rabbi of Czernowitz by Salomon Grossberg [32]
    Dr. Josef Rosenfeld by Higher Regional Court Chief Justice Dr. Isidor Gold [34]
    In Rememberance of Chief Rabbi Dr. Rosenfeld by Chief Editor Dr. Adolf Niederhoffer [35]
    The Cantors Since the Foundation of the Temple [37]
    As a Memento of the Jewish Czernowitz Seventy Years Ago by Adolf Schwarz [38]
    The Jewish House of God by Director Max Seidmann [40]
    The Presidents of the Jewish Community Since the Consecretion of the Temple [42]
    The Soul of our Temple by Bernhard Pistiner [44]
    The Rabbis of the Jewish Community of Czernowitz by S. Wininger [46]
    The Former Jewish Mayors of the Municipality of Czernowitz [49]
    The Temple and its Visitors by Markus Schmelzer [50]
    The Official Directors of the Jewish Community Since the Consecration of the Temple [53]
    60 Years Temple by Dr. Siegfried Rosenzweig [54]
    The Erection of the Temple by Architect Eng. Adam Appenzeller [55]
Courtesy: National Library of Israel