Re: [Cz-L] Gregor Von Rezzori

If von Rezzori was antisemitic ? Why should this trouble us ?
Are we going to boycott him for this , like the Nazis boycotted Heine ?
 In Cz., where everyone was either a Jew or an antisemite I would'nt
wonder if he was.
   In Cz. if you were not a Jew ,you were antisemitic.
     They hated us and we hated them. Since Chmelnitzky and before.
    Our hatred was passive - theirs very active.

   We like von Rezzori because he spoke and wrote like us.
    He was fluent in Yiddish and uses Czernowitzer Yiddish German
  making his Jewish characters come alive and true.
  In translations this is lost.
   Take this from "Hermelin"in the dialog between Uscher Brill and
Paschkano:
 " Ein schoner Stein " sagte Brill langsam . "Ein sehr ein schoener Stein ".
  How do you convey this in other languages ?
    We should pay tribute to von Rezzori for immortalizing our hometown
    instead of speculating on his sentiments.
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Andermann" <andermannf_at_qc.aibn.com>
To: <Czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:11 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Gregor Von Rezzori

> Stimulated by the recent email from Jessica Falikman Attiyeh, I would like
> to add a few comments about the work of the late Gregor Von Rezzori. I
> have
> read and re-read with pleasure his descriptions of life in Czernowitz,
> including in addition to the 2 works mentioned, his novel, The Hussar (Ein
> Hermelin in Tschernopol) and The Death of My Brother Abel. When his work
> began to appear some decades ago, there was a great deal of debate amongst
> people from Czernowitz. There was a great deal of criticism and he was
> often accused of anti-Semitism. His attitude however was quite typical of
> what one might expect in certain strata of Czernowitz society and he was
> certainly quite familiar with the behaviour and characteristics of our
> co-nationals. This type of criticism is still in the back of my mind, but
> it has not diminished my enjoyment of his work. At any rate, "De mortuis
> nisi bonum".
>
>
>
> Fred Andermann
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