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

Hello Shulamit,
Welcome to the Czernowitz-List!

In my family the fear of drafts was mild and stronger while we lived in
Czernowitz than after we left, but for as long as my mother lived, when I
was going to leave the house, she would say: "take a sweater."

Mimi

On 6/9/10 10:34 PM, "Shulamit Falik" <shula.falik_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
>
> He also had an odd superstition - if he sewed an article of clothing while I
> was wearing it, he made me chew a piece of thread. Has anyone heard of that?
>
> I am also interested in translations of 2 words he used as Yiddish
> endearments for me when I was a child - *shtroyz'kl *and *p'tchurikl*. I've
> asked Yiddish speakers about them but haven't gotten an answer. I thought
> perhaps they are words combined from the local languages.
>
> - Shulamit Falik, Syosset, NY
>
>
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