Re: [Cz-L] German andCzernowitz. from Miriam Taylor on 2010-06-05 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:53:29 -0400
To: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, 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>

Hardy,

Thank you for sending us great jokes. This is one of the best things about
belonging to the Czernowitz-List.
Now I will smile for a long time.

But you could not have been in a rage in 1918, not even in 1928, you were
not born yet.

Mimi

On 6/5/10 11:55 PM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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