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Chernivtsi (known at that time as Czernowitz) became the center of the Galicia's Bukovina District until 1848, later becoming the Duchy of Bukovina until 1918. In the aftermath of World War I , Romania united with Bukovina in 1918, which led to the city regaining its Romanian name of Cernăuți ; this lasted until the Soviets occupied ...
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 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]
Julius Scherzer was born on 17 February 1928, in Czernowitz, Romania, (the city that is now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). The son of an attorney, he grew up in a secular, German-speaking Jewish family. He attended grade school and first year middle school under the Romanians. [1]
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.
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 ...
Iancu Flondor (1865–1924), Austro-Hungarian-born ethnic Romanian activist who advocated Bukovina's union with the Kingdom of Romania; Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904), Jewish writer and publicist, grew up in Czernowitz and wrote a literary memorial of the Jewish ghetto, The Jews of Barnow