Re: [Cz-L] The swap

We didnt call it Bakshish.
 We called it "Schmieren"(to grease ,to lubricate.)
   You must grease the wheels , otherwise they creak.

Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur von Czernowitz" <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "cornel fleming"
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>; <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>; "HARDY BREIER"
<HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] The swap.

> As long as I can remember, my grandmother always talked about her heavy
> gold chain which she wore on Shabes.
> She swapped the gold chain for a Popovici permit. She gave it to an
> official or a police officer. This official arranged that she did not
> have to move to the ghetto, wear the yellow star and also kept her store
> in the Kuczurmarerstrasse.
> But every time when she met a Czernowitzer she told the story and cursed
> that official who took her heavy gold chain. Nor a cholere sol im trefen.
> (I hope he caches cholera).
>
> Arthur
>
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