The lives of the middle class German-speaking assimilated Jewish population of Czernowitz are represented in microcosm here.  From the halcyon days of Austrian rule when Jews could be members of the Bukowina parliament (as was Max Fokschaner) to the increasingly repressive conditions under Romanian, then Soviet rule, and finally flight from the Nazis, these papers provide a valuable insight into a once prosperous central European family.

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