Re: [Cz-L] more on "angsts"

Hi Shulamit, Yes indeed, you remind me of an other superstition...when a
button of your coat is gone and you are in hurry, you or somebody will sew
it on you, must take a thread in your mouth, because otherwise your "moich"
"brain " will be sewd and you will get imbecil..
Regards Hedwig Brenner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shulamit Falik" <shula.falik_at_gmail.com>
To: <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 4:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] more on "angsts"

>I am a new member of this list & have been following the conversations with
> great interest, but I haven't been moved to join until this point.
>
> My father was born in Willawcze in 1903 and spent several years in
> Czernowitz before departing for NY in 1921. He stayed with relatives in
> the
> city while he was apprenticed to a watchmaker to learn a trade, and he
> became a jeweler in the New World. My grandmother & aunt stayed in
> Willawcze
> & were massacred in 1941. It is so interesting and satisfying to me to
> learn about the world he came from through the email threads & the photos
> &
> the wonderful memories & stories that people share on this list. Even the
> detailed discussions of street names and nuances of
> Yiddish/German/Rumanian
> entangled languages. I have finally gotten a sense of the history of the
> history he lived through via these email conversations.
>
> But what brings me into this discussion is the fact that my father, when
> he
> was in his 80's, lived in absolute terror of drafts! He didn't leave the
> house much, and when I came to visit he would often have a woolen muffler
> wrapped around his neck while constantly complaining about the "terrible
> drafts." He warned me to "Bevare of the drafts" and chided me to wear a
> warm
> muffler during the winter. I thought it was a good idea since he lived
> into
> his 90's!
>

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