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

I, personally, never felt Rumanian except for my travelling documents -once
I had a passport and in 1942 on my long journey to Israel I had "a
document"-. Although or despite of the fact that I studied in the Notre-Dam=
e
in Galati I felt an outsider everywhere- not Rumanian but very Jewish. For
the first time I wore a star around my neck-. My roots were in the German
language and during the first Russian occupation I went to the Moldavsaka
 scoala where we learned Rumanian NOT Russian but in Cyrillic writing. Our
Russian teacher was a lovely lady and we learned Russian poetry as well. In
that school we had a German teacher a professor of literature (refugee from
Germany??) who gave me even more love for the language. When,- in a
different century -it seemed to me- I lived in Austria and Germany, because
my husband worked in German speaking countries, I was told that MY GERMAN
was without accent the clear of all their dialects. O.K. so we called
Semmeln and not Broetchen, Palatchinten not pan cakes, Weiss Kaese not
Topfen etc. but I spoke it "wie mein |Schnabel gewachsen war" (not
translatable, you won't even find it in the Wikipadia).
  We never had Ruthenian maids and I never ever learned the lingo. Ours
were Zippzers. In the Meisler school we had German lessons and I learned
Gothic and Latin letters. After that it was Rumanian but the lendinding
library was, if I my memory doesn't fail me, in the Herrengasse not street
level but steps down, German books and the Schreibwahren opposite Meisler
school was either Fingerhut or .....schnabel does anyone remember?
I don't know whom I hated more the Russians, Germans or the British in
Palestine. It's good that I live in Israel, I'm at home.
Anny

2010/3/1 yosi-jerry <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>

> 100% correct. Germany agreed that we belonged to "Den Deutschen
> Kulturkreis" =3D The German Culture Circle - and till the end of the 1970=
ties
> we were allowed to emigrate and receive German citizenship.
> Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel
>-snip-
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