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  • After living for some time in Czernowitz and Moldavia the boy of eighteen joined the Austrian army and seven years later was made an officer, taking part in the Italian wars of 1859, when the Austrians opposed the French.

    Songs of Ukraina, With Ruthenian Poems 1916

  • In 1927 she spent one month visiting Constantin Brunner in Berlin after which she returned to Czernowitz in 1928 to take care of her ailing mother.

    Rose Ausl��nder. 2009

  • Ausländer is known for her crystalline poems describing the natural wonders of the world, such as stars, butterflies and flowers, as well as her experiences in the Czernowitz ghetto during World War II and the Shoah, her life in exile, her travels through Europe, and her relationship to family and friends.

    Rose Ausl��nder. 2009

  • Among the Central European Jewish women trailblazers were four Welt sisters from Czernowitz, Bukovina, whose efforts to study at the University of Vienna in the 1870s had met with failure.

    Higher Education in Central Europe. 2009

  • From 1941 to spring of 1944 German troops occupied Czernowitz and Ausländer was forced to live in the Jewish ghetto of the city.

    Rose Ausl��nder. 2009

  • Born in Czernowitz, Romania, on May 13, 1936, Ruth, her older brother, and her parents Masha and Leo Roskies were admitted into Canada in 1940.

    Ruth R. Wisse. 2009

  • Of the sixty thousand Jews who had lived in Czernowitz, only five thousand survived the Shoah (Braun, ed.Vol. 1, 1985, p. 10).

    Rose Ausl��nder. 2009

  • Rose Ausländer, a German-speaking Jewish poet from Czernowitz/Bukovina who spent much of her life in exile in the United States and Germany, wrote that her true home was the word itself.

    Rose Ausl��nder. 2009

  • In 1939, when her first book Der Regenbogen (The Rainbow) was published in Czernowitz with the support of her mentor Alfred Margul-Sperber, a company secretary at the Bowery Savings Bank, she traveled to Paris and New York.

    Rose Ausl��nder. 2009

  • Lea Weintraub-Graf performed from 1909 to 1917 at the Jüdische Bühne in Vienna, with occasional guest performances in Czernowitz, Paris, Galicia, Hungary and Germany.

    Yiddish Theater in Vienna. 2009

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