[Cz-L] German andCzernowitz.

Old Czernowitz is an Austrian town. This cannot be changed.
  Bukovina was originally Moldovian with a considerable Rumanian presence.
  In Czernowitz they were a minority.
    The majority was Jewish ,who became Austrian patriots and adopted
  German as their language.
    They had it easily as Yiddish speakers -Yiddish stems from German.
    All other minorities did not have this advantage .
    Whatmore the Jews had their best time during Austrian rule.
     In 1918 came the Rumanians and brought romanization.
     Streetnames got romanized getting names of romanian dignitaries
     and had no significance to us.
      And the Jews had to learn a new language:
      "Eu am avut, tu ai avut " this is rumanian for "to have" in the past.
      The Jews jocosely conjugated:
      " Ich hab a Wut , du hast a Wut " meaning I'm in a rage...
         We certainy were !

 Hardy

Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "Bruce Wexler" <AJS1PRES_at_aol.com>; <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>;
"Arthur Rindner" <vonczernowitz_at_yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 12:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] street names

> 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

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