RE: [Cz-L] In German, about German and Yiddish in Czernowitz

Hardy,
I remember the title "Chevaliers de la Schmatte" so in the past
you probably have been a Czernowitzer nobleman too.
Berti

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[mailto:bounce-6281389-12690308_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of HARDY BREIER
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 3:13 PM
To: Miriam Taylor; CZERNOWITZ-L
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] In German, about German and Yiddish in Czernowitz

German, our much beloved German were has it gone ?
 Down the drain !
  In 1918 the Austrians withdrew their troops and officials and went back to
  Vienna leaving their faithful subjects behind the Carpathian mountains
  prey to the Eastern hordes.
        Here the region underwent a degermanization process in stages :
      1. Romanization - enforcement.
      2. Germans repatriation. The 1940 call by the Vaterland.
      2. Deportation of the Jews .
      3. Sovietization.
      4. Exodus - abolition of Yiddish schools.
      5. Multiple population exchange leaving no german speakers.
      6. Ukrainean Independence - german can only be heard at the
University.
          Celan is a street and J. Schmidt is a memorial plate.
    Today you don't hear German on the streets of Czernowitz.
     Yiddish neither.
        Here is the story :
   " Czernowitz in Bukowina der Sage wohlbekannt,
      Die Hoehe, wo vorzeiten die Stadt der Juden stand,
       Die Stadt ist noch vorhanden , doch ist von Juden leer.
        Und fragst du nach den Juden, du findest sie nicht mehr."

        This is a free adaptation from the german poem "Das
         Riesenspielzeug" and says roughly this:

                 Czernowitz in Bukowina ,as well known by the tale,
          The height were time ago , the town of the jews stood,
           The town is still existing but of the jews is void,
            If you're asking for the jews , you find them no more.

   ( The original german poem is written by Chamisso who was a French
nobleman.
      The translation is by Hardy who is neither french nor nobleman).

Hardy

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