{"id":467,"date":"2017-08-08T18:36:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/?p=467"},"modified":"2017-08-09T18:44:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T18:44:23","slug":"campulung-moldovenesc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bukovina2017.rennert.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/08\/campulung-moldovenesc\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e2mpulung Moldovenesc then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"

On their trip in 1935, my father’s family passed through this small town of about 10.000 and stayed overnight. In his memoirs, he recalled how they found a small windowless room at a tavern that reminded him of Wilhelm Hauff’s tale “Das Wirtshaus im Spessart<\/a>“, with grim-looking, but probably simply tired proprietors and patrons. (Next morning, by daylight, they looked a lot friendlier.) On the streets, he saw Jews in Orthodox garb (which he apparently had not met where he lived in Vienna) and their children. I think the reason he mentioned this fact in this way was, because C\u00e2mpulung’s Jewish; something my father had not yet witnessed before. Also, perhaps his parents were not particularly observant; so this sight must have been new to him.<\/p>\n

Nowadays, of course, nothing of this remains. The town is Romanian, period. No Germans, no Ukrainians, few Roma or Sinti and certainly no Jews. The Shil<\/em> is still there, just a few yards from the main road. It looks quite well-kept from the outside. The door is firmly locked and there is no sign indicating a name or a phone number to call, should you be interested in seeing the inside.<\/p>\n

(Edit: As my knowledgeable nephew E. informs me, the Campulung Shul serves as a venue for the <\/i>Campulung Film Festival<\/a> 2017. On the festival’s homepage you can see a nice photograph of the inside. Complete with burning Chanukah candles AND a lulav lying on the shulchan… Sometimes the jewish calendar plays funny tricks!)<\/i><\/p>\n