[Cz-L] Correction about the Ukrainian term for "Jewish cemetery"

Correction:

In Chernivtsi and in polite Ukrainian the Jewish cemetery is NOT called
"Jidovsky Zwintar. It is called "Evreiski Zvintar". That is what it is
called on the map put out by the city cemeteries administration and this
is the name by which local taxi-drivers and others refer to it.

For at least the last 80 years, the term "Jid" (pronounce the J as in
journal) has been a derogatory term equivalent to "kike" in English.
The last time I heard anyone use it in Czernowitz was in 1943.
66 years have passed since then.

Mimi

On 5/13/09 2:42 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> Cemetery.
>
>
>
> As almost all recent mails deal with the cemetery it is
>
> essential we know more about the origin of the word.
>
> Cemetery stems from the Greek word Koimeterion
>
> meaning " sleeping place ".
>
> Koma is Greek for sleep.
>
> From this comes Rumanian cimitir , Polish cmentarz ,
>
> and Ukrainean Zwintar.
>
> So the Jewish cemetery in Ukrainean is Jidovsky Zwintar.
>
> But in Galicia and Bukowina they call a Jewish cemetery
>
> the Kirkut. Special name - only in Western Ukraina.
>
> Kirkut comes from the German Kirchhof.
>
> Kirchhof means church yard where the Christians of old
>
> time used to bury their dead .
>
> No Jew was ever buried in a church yard !
>
> But Kirkut it is.
>
>
>
> From here the famous poem :
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> " To the Kirkut sneak two lonely vandals,
>
> One of them is wearing sandals,
>
> The night is young , the graves are old,
>
> They're looking for the Jewish gold ."
>
>
>
> Hardy
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