Radauti, this former typical shtetl located in Bukovina, had at the time when this picture was taken less than 500 Jews. A circumcision was indeed a real event for this small community of aged people and a mitzvah that was not easy to fulfill given the fact that by then only a small number of people who could perform the rites were left in the country.

Circumcision ceremony in the Kern family home, Radauti, Bukovina, c. 1975