Why the Rebbes left di Bukovina

Synagogue of the Sadagora Rebbe, about 1910

It sure doesn't look like a Rebbishe Hoif to me, more like a Parisian Boulevard actually. The bowler hat and yie on the gentleman in the foreground, and the umbrella etc. on the lady in the background. This was still 1910, imagine 20 years later! The Rizhiner kinder also left for the most part, with the Stefanester the exception to the rule, leaving to Vienna at WWI, never to return. Seems like the Vizhnitzer cousin conferred with them, or vice versa.


Opening parade at the Maccabee Games in Chernivtsi (1927)


Chernovitz is no surprise though.