Dear all
I have loved reading everyone's reminiscences and family histories. As to the earlier history that precedes all of us on the list, and that has come down in family memory, there is, of course a great deal of variation, due to individual circumstance, class, upward mobility, aspiration and resistance. Many Jews did indeed speak German to each other at the turn and in the early years of the 20th century, and certainly by the teens, when many working and middle class Jewish families fled to Vienna due to World War I.
Leo and I trace the generational assimilationist trajectory of Czernowitz Jews, based on family and public records, in Chapter 2 of our book "Ghosts of Home" and we find that German schooling filtered into the home by the turn of the century already.
all best, Marianne
On Se p 5, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Miriam Taylor wrote:
> 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
>
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