Ereignisse

Annexation by Romania on November 28, 1918

In early 1918, Romania signed a ceasefire with the Central Powers and negotiated a separate peace treaty. The Romanian university professor and politician Ion Nistor (1876-1962), a native of Buko...

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Bukovina Compromise of 1910

The National Equalization of 1909/10 established for the first time the claims and rights of minorities in the Bukovina regional elections. Its structure was a unique phenomenon in the Habsburg M...

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Yiddish Language Conference 1908

In the narrow window of time between 1908 and the outbreak of the First World War, language was at the centre of many debates about the Jewish nation. Nathan Birnbaum played a key role in this in...

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Migration movements of Jews and Soviet emigration policy in 1946

In 1946, more than 20,000 Jews left northern Bukovina for Romania on legal emigration transports. Until the 1990s, researchers assumed that the emigration of Jews from this region was initiated e...

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Russian occupation period 1914-1917

During the war years of 1914 to 1917, Bukovina was occupied three times by units of the Russian army. Faced with the superiority of the Russian army, the Austro-Hungarian troops made a rapid retr...

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Closure of the City Theatre in 1922

On 29 December 1921, an incident occurred at the Chernivtsi City Theatre that would ultimately lead to the demise of an independent German theatre and the end of regular German-language seasons i...

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Universitätsgründung

In 1868, a member of parliament in Bukovina put to a vote a proposal to establish a full law faculty, as the polonised Lviv no longer seemed suitable for educating young Bukovinians. As it was fi...

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