Czernowitz in German, Cernauti in Romanian, Chernivtsi in Ukrainian. This city in the Carpathian foothills of southwestern Ukraine knows the stories of many cultures. These stories were told in many ...

The far-flung commemorations of the centenary of the 1908 Yiddish language conference in Czernowitz, including a conference in December, 2009 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, continue to have ...

Of the 50,000 Jews who lived in Czernowitz before the war, about 15,000 may have been saved by the Russian Army which re-captured that Rumanian city last week, it was reported today by Jewish refugees ...

Colto Dorescu, new prefect here, today closed the Cuzist (Rumanian Nazi) headquarters and arrested 150 Cuzists and Goga “Lancers” for army court trial on charges of organizing anti-Jewish excesses.

Helene Belndorfer of Vienna writes: Josef Burg is the last Yiddish writer in the legendary town of Czernowitz (now the Ukrainian Chernivtsi) and one of the few remaining known Yiddish authors in ...

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Vet German docmeister Volker Koepp's "This Year in Czernowitz" is a companion piece to his 1999 pic "Herr Zwilling and Frau Zuckerman," which centered on two of the last surviving Jews in the titular ...