By the 1920ies most Czernowitz Jews spoke German to each other, this
included my family as well, but in the period of the turn of the century,
most of them spoke Yiddish.
Mimi
On 9/5/10 10:53 AM, "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
> Mimi..a good history! But..you write that the Jews spoke Yiddish to each
> other.No doubt true of some..but my large extended family and their friends
> all spoke Czernowitzer Deutsch at home and to each other and since many Jews
> travelled to Vienna and other parts of the Empire they needed the language.
> Cornel
>
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