Now I get it! and I understand it as it squares with other hints of
snobbery I've heard form the same domains! Thanks, Cornel. I really
got it when you slipped handily into the German!!!
Nina
cornel wrote:
> nina, the answer is/was pure snobbery. czernowitz was the capital of
> the bukowina and basically under direct imperial rule, the
> galitzianers were sort of the village relations. a similar scenario
> developed when rumanian rule started. jews from rumania proper were
> called reichsrumanen(ie from the rum. kingdom) whereas the
> czernowitzer jews....na ja,wir sind doch oesterreicher!.....cornel
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