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The Jewish orphanage (official name: Kaiser Franz Joseph Jubilee Orphanage for Israelites in Chernivtsi) was inaugurated in 1900 after a long period of planning. However, the building in the former Fleischergasse, which was renamed Wagnergasse (after the Heinrich and Josefine Wagner Foundation donated 662,928 crowns to the orphanage), was built with funds from the Emperor Franz Joseph Jubilee Orphanage Foundation for Israelites (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his reign) and remained unused for about four years. It was only on 4 September 1904 that the orphanage was able to start work, after donations (from Josefine Wagner, widow of Heinrich Wagner, a member of the Reichsrat) and the Jewish Community, which administered the orphanage, had provided sufficient funds for its upkeep.

Jewish orphanage
Administrative buildings & transportation
built
1898 - 1900

According to the 1907 annual report, 46 orphans (25 boys, 21 girls) were cared for in the institution in 1906. 42 orphans attended the primary school, two the commercial school and one each the grammar school and the secondary school. The orphanage had “a beautiful garden in which the children also did gardening work” (Bukovinaer Post, 30 May 1907, p. 3). In 1906 the orphanage's income was 35,290 crowns. Expenses totalled 32,339 crowns. Donations totalled 14,722 crowns. At this time the orphanage had five full-time employees: the director Hermann Feuerwerk, the religion teacher Josef Thier, the supervisor and répétiteur Meier Puder, the supervisor and housekeeper Bertha Trichter and the family doctor Dr S. Rudich. 

Text: Markus Winkler 

Materials: 

  1. Kaiser Franz Joseph Jubiläums-Waisenhaus für Israeliten in Czernowitz. VIII. Jahresbericht für das Jahr 1912 


Materials

Jewish orphanage (postcard)
Source: muzejew.org.ua
Jewish orphanage (contemporary photograph)
Source: Hugo Gold. Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina. Bd. 2, Tel Aviv 1962, p. 200
Call for a municipal orphanage (1884)
Source: (Neue) Bukowiner Rundschau, August 17, 1884, p. 1
Call for a municipal orphanage (1884)
Source: (Neue) Bukowiner Rundschau, August 17, 1884, p. 2
Subsidies denied for the orphanage in 1898
Source: Genossenschafts- und Vereins-Zeitung, March 1, 1898, p. 5
Israelite orphanage in Czernowitz (1898)
Source: Bukowinaer Rundschau, October 30, 1898, p. 2
Israelite orphanage in Czernowitz (1898)
Source: Bukowinaer Rundschau, October 30, 1898, p. 2
Criticism after construction - orphanage not in operation (1900)
Source: Bukowinaer Rundschau, September 21, 1900, p. 1
Passover Seder at the orphanage
Source: Bukowinaer Post, April 12, 1900, p. 3
Retrospective (1906)
Source: Bukowinaer Post, September 8, 1906, p. 1
Second Annual Report (1907)
Source: Bukowinaer Post, May 30, 1907, p. 3
Second Annual Report (1907)
Source: Bukowinaer Post, May 30, 1907, p. 3
Donation (1912)
Source: Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung, January 6, 1912, p. 6
VIII. annual report (1912)
Source: http://hauster.blogspot.de/2013/09/czernowitzer-czernowitzer-in-vienna-961.html
Former Jewish orphanage (formerly Wagnergasse, now: Ivana Bohuna 24)
Photo: Markus Winkler (2016)
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