RE: [Cz-L] two questions

I want to add to Marianne's statement. I am in a class for seniors which are
studying various texts related to the "Origins of Jewish Thought." We are
now studying Vex, M., "Born To Kvetch" Yiddish language and culture in all
moods. I shared with my classmates that when I visited my grand parents and
extended family in Czernowitz in the 1930s (between 1934-1938) I spoke only
German to my cousins, my grand parents and mu mother's friends. Even when I
visited my cousins who lived in the all Jewish neighborhood I spoke German
and some times Hebrew (since we visited Czernowitz from Palestine).

Shanah Tova

Jerry

Jerry Lapides, Ph.D.

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Hirsch
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 12:25 PM
To: Miriam Taylor
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Subject: Re: [Cz-L] two questions

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

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