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Vorwärts ('Forward') was a German-language socialist daily newspaper published from Czernowitz/Cernăuți, Bukovina (in Austria-Hungary, later in Romania; present-day Chernivtsi, Ukraine). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The newspaper was founded in 1899 with the name Volkspresse ('People's Press').
"Czarnowce" on a 1639 Beauplan map centered on Pokuttia; placed in "Wallachia or Little Moldavia", bottom right. Chernivtsi (Ukrainian: Чернівці, pronounced [tʃerniu̯ˈtsi] ⓘ; Romanian: Cernăuți, pronounced [tʃernəˈutsʲ] ⓘ; see also other names) is a city in southwestern Ukraine on the upper course of the Prut River.
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 ...
Arboroasa's initiator, Teodor V. Ștefanelli, had been a member of the Romania Jună Society, and used the latter group's statute as a model for the new organization. Its stated purpose was to perfect members' patriotic, literary and cultural consciousness, to develop a social spirit and to assist poorer members, [ 2 ] including free medical ...
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]
In 1782, following the incorporation of Bukovina into the Habsburg monarchy, the seat of the Moldavian Eastern Orthodox Bishops of Rădăuți was moved to Chernivtsi (then known as Czernowitz). The province's military administration built a residence in haste for bishop Dosoftei Herescu . The edifice, completed in 1783, bore a shabby aspect ...
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 ...
Zvi Zucker (later Yavetz) was born in Czernowitz, Ukraine. [1] When he was five years old, he was diagnosed with polio and his father committed suicide. [1] After the German occupation in 1941, he was sent to a concentration camp. His relatives, including his mother, were murdered, but he survived the Holocaust and escaped in 1944. [2]