Re: [Cz-L] street names from Miriam Taylor on 2010-06-05 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:29:02 -0400
To: Bruce Wexler <AJS1PRES_at_aol.com>, czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu, Arthur Rindner <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>
Reply-to: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

By the time I was born, Czernowitz had been Cernauti and Romanian for
19years. I lived in Czernowitz for the first 8 years of my life, during 6 of
these the city was part of Romania. Yet I did not even know the name of the
street I lived on in Romanian. We spoke German, read German and Romanian was
used only when speaking to Romanians or when telling a joke which had to be
told in Romanian. Most Czernowitzers spoke some Ruthenian and many
Ruthenians spoke some Yiddish.

To this day, the Volksgarten is the Volksgarten, The Karolinengasse is the
Karolinengasse, the Herrengasse is die Herrengasse.

This is not a case of "Istanbul was once Constantinopolis".

Mimi

On 6/5/10 12:02 PM, "AJS1PRES_at_aol.com" <AJS1PRES_at_aol.com> wrote:

> This is for those of you who grew up in Czernowitz. I know that by the
> time you were growing up Czernowitz was Romanian or Russian. Yet you all
> (especially Hardy) seem to know all the street names as they were during the
> A-H
> times, ie the German names. When you were growing up, did you still call
> the streets by their German names, or have you relearned this since you have
> left Czernowitz?
> Thanks
>
> Bruce Wexler
> Jackson, NJ
>
>
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