RE: [Cz-L] Are you from Rumania ?

Hi.Hardy....in Czernowitz we called Jews who came in from Rumania
"Reichsrumaenen" and looked down on them...quite correctly...their education
was obviously sadly lacking since very few of them spoke German. And in
Israel my family regarded themselves as Austrian,with no ifs or buts!!
Cornel

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Subject: [Cz-L] Are you from Rumania ?

"Are you from Rumania ?"

Most of us were born in Rumanian Bukowina.
 We spoke German but had no German formal education.
  German we learned at home and reading books.
The slang ,which gives the language
its richness and flavor was missing.
  As I pointed out before , we couldn't curse in German.
  We did curse ( and how we did) in the local vernacular.
   Our street slang was a German spiced with Yiddish,
Ruthenian , Rumanian and understandable only to
town people.
Even local ethnic Germans were speaking
dialects we wouldn't understand .

  But we declared boastfully that we had Deutsche Kultur !

  Rumanian we learned from kindergarten age , there we
learned the anthem : Traiasca Regele - long live our King.

  This I still remember.

  As my formal Rumanian education was over when I was 8
  it was completed by studying Excentric Club brochures and similar stuff.

 When we came to Rumania, the local Jews despised us.
They couldn't stand our stance of superiority ,high nosed
declarations : "We are not Rumanians ! We are different and
much superior !"
 We were proud of our heavily accented
 Czernowitzer speech ! We even stressed it to make it
obvious. We were aristocrats ! We could recite Wilhelm
Busch in original of whom these savage Regatler havn't even
 heard of !

    How couldn't they see and admit our supremacy ?

  And how they hated us ! They called us Czernoschwitzers.

  Even in Israel we resented being called Rumanians .
  " Are you from Rumania ? " when asked , we would reply with obvious
 uneasiness and sorrow :" Technically we are".

Hardy
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