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

100% correct. Germany agreed that we belonged to "Den Deutschen Kulturkreis"
= The German Culture Circle - and till the end of the 1970ties we were
allowed to emigrate and receive German citizenship.
 Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel

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From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:28 AM
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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