48°19' / 25°34' Translation of chapter Unter Stanestie from
Volume II: Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina Edited by: Hugo
Gold As told by Josef Schapira Giwataim Israel, Published in Tel
Aviv, 1962 The first settlers were teamsters who carried logs
and lumber to the border cities of Galicia. They were soon
joined by other Jews who ran small retail businesses and who
lived under the most difficult conditions. We also know the
names of craftsmen and founders of small industrial firms around
1850. David Melzer was a soap and candle manufacxturer. There
was a soda water factory that was run by Meschulen Bleiweiss and
his sons and later an oil press owned by Leiser Hubner. David
Suessmann produced beams in a primitive way with hand saws. Also
a doctor by the name of Dr. Peller and a military barber,
Jerichim Plutzer whose wife Seide was a midwife lived in the
town. The majority of the population couldn't make a living and
this caused a large number to emigrate to America. Many found
prosperity in the strange lan