most unfortunately, the rise of anti-semitic feelings throughout most of the students and some faculty members, and the lack of jewish cadavers for anatomy study (jewish students were not allowed to dissect christian cadavers), forced zicman to quit studying medicine at iași. nevertheless, his desire to continue studying was paramount, so he enrolled at the faculty of natural sciences, at the university of chernivtsi (founded in 1875 as the franz-josephs-universität czernowitz), when chernivtsi (cernăuți in romanian) was the capital of the duchy of bukovina, nicknamed “little vienna”, part of the austrian empire. zicman feider studied only one year there, and then moved back to iași, province of moldova.