About the life of the Bucharian Jews in Vienna – Diepresse.com
Vienna was once not her real goal for the Bucharian Jews. The community grows and blooms today. Many have found their home here.
In the early 1970s, the Soviet Union allowed Jewish citizens to leave the departure under harassment and losses. For around 70,000 people, she led over Austria, but: « Our goal was Israel, » recalls Mordechai Karschigijew. His family came from Tashkent, the capital of today’s Uzbekistan, and traveled to Tel Aviv. They were too seventh: father, mother and five children. Mordechai was the eldest son, almost 18 years when the Jom Kippur War broke out in October 1973. That was not what the family had hoped for: « I came to Israel so that my sons could live, not to see them falling, » said the mother.
So you decided to try the return to the Soviet Union. The Karschigijew family came back to Vienna for the application to the Soviet authorities in May 1974. You didn’t know anyone. But the following applies in the community: « You help each other », as Michael Galibov, now Vice President of the Israelite Cultural Community (see interview below). « In the beginning we slept in a cabinet, » recalls Karschigijew in Vienna today.
