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The symbol is a medallion with the inscription engraved on it: "From Chernivtsi community to freely elected head", on the reverse – "The foundation of a free state is a free community". The medallion is attached to a chain consisting of stylized coats of arms Ukraine, Chernivtsi region and the city of Chernivtsi.
In 2011, an anthropological analysis of the Russian census of the population of Moldavia in 1774 asserted a population of 68,700 people in 1774, out of which 40,920 (59.6%) were Romanians, 22,810 Ruthenians and Hutsuls (33.2%), and 7.2% Jews, Roma, and Armenians. [31]
The Jewish Community in Chernivtsi was the largest Jewish Community in all of Bukovina, in what is now Romania and Ukraine. At its peak in 1941, more than 45 thousand Jews lived in Chernivtsi . The first documentation of Jews in Chernivtsi (then Cernăuți in Romanian ) comes from the year 1408, when Alexander I of Moldavia allowed Jews to ...
The buildings originally hosted a substantial theological faculty which continued to function as such when Czernowitz became, after the end of World War I, part of Romania under the name of Cernăuți. [21] It was in the Synodal Hall that on 28 November 1918, Bukovina's union with Romania was ratified. [22]
10 November - The Ukrainian National Committee together with its military supporters retreat from Czernowitz. [3] 11 November - Czernowitz (claimed by the West Ukrainian People's Republic) is seized by the Romanian Army. [1] [5] [3] 12 November - The Romanian National Council establishes a new government in Bukovina under Flondor's presidency. [1]
The region was temporarily recovered by Romania as an ally of Nazi Germany after the latter invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, but retaken by the Soviet army in 1944. [2] Bukovina's population was historically ethnically diverse. Today, Bukovina's northern half is the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine, while the southern part is Suceava County of ...
The Great Synagogue in Chernivtsi, an Ashkenazi congregation, was completed in 1853. [2] In 1872 a split occurred between the Reform and Orthodox communities living in Czernowitz; and the following year the Reform congregation began construction of The Temple of Czernowitz, designed by Julian Zachariewicz [3] in the Moorish Revival style. By ...
Benno or Beno Straucher (Yiddish: בענאָ שטרױכער; August 11, 1854 – November 5, 1940) was a Bukovina-born Austro-Hungarian lawyer, politician and Jewish community representative, who spent the final part of his career in Romania.