A study on society and history of the multicultural city Czernowitz

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24617004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 文化学
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: FUJINO HIROSHI 一橋大学, 言語社会研究科, 教授 (50295440)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 多文化共生 / オーストリア帝国 / ナータン・ビルンバウム / カール・エーミル・フランツォース / ウクライナ / シオニズム / イディッシュ語 / 同化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Once there was a city named Czernowitz. Until the end of the First World War and the collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918, Czernowitz had been a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, thereby dominated by the German language and culture. In spite of this, the German population was outnumbered by the Ukrainian and Romanian population, and furthermore, there were a larger number of Jewish people living in the city too. Therefore, if German-Jewish Symbiosis ever did exist, we could perhaps say that it had taken place in Czernowitz. However, since 1918, Czernowitz was ruled successively by Romania, the Soviet, and Ukraine from 1991 onwards, the city commonly known as Chernivtsi nowadays has already lost its characteristic as a multicultural society. It is therefore one of the objectives of this study to pay homage to the past culture of Czernowitz.

Free Research Field

哲学（倫理学）、思想史