Re: [Cz-L] Fw: 1st November 2010

Yosl my darling,
it is "entschuldigen" and not whatever you said...
Did you ever read Mark Twain's "That Awful German Language?"
I have it somewhere on my computer, if you didn't read it yet, I'll forward
it to you sometime - provided I find it!
A hug, Lucca

----- Original Message -----
From: "jerome schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
To: "Lucca" <lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Fw: 1st November 2010

> OK... I see you did it. I opened your mail before I opened the mail to
> the list. You should 'enshouldig mir'.
> Yosl
>
>
> On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 07:14 -0400, Lucca wrote:
>> This is copy of my weeky blog to the Jerusalem Post.
>> On the way to you, upon Hardy's recommendation.
>> Lucca
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <mailto:HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>HARDY BREIER
>> To: <mailto:lucca99_at_netvision.net.il>Lucca
>> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 8:08 AM
>> Subject: Re: 1st November 2010
>>
>> Lucca,
>> Why dont you send this to the list ?
>> Best promoting material ever !
>> Hardy
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>
>> The other day I heard on the radio the long-forgotten hymn of
>> communist Russia and I suddenly remembered the time when, as a
>> ten-year old, I sang this hymn along with the other pupils in my
>> class, standing at attention and knowing all the words. There were
>> other hymns before that, my parents, incidentally, knew only the
>> Austrian "May God save the emperor".
>>
>> I, starting first grade, sang the Rumanian hymn "Long live the King"
>> under the Rumanian flag. Then the Russian communists invaded our city
>> and ruled for about a full year after which the Rumanians returned
>> with full Nazi support.. Unfortunate jews were sent to the camps,
>> the luckier ones stayedg behind in our graceful, beautiful city,
>> under the worst possible circumstances; we lived and walked on egg
>> shells, frightened of what the next day, or night, may bring. Until
>> the day when our town went up in flames and the Russians came back.
>> This time, who ever could, left Czernowitz, first to the South of
>> the Bucovina and then to places all over the world, somewhere else in
>> Europe, the U.S., Australia and finally to Israel..
>>
>>
>>
>> At the present time I am a member of the so-called Czernowitz List.
>> We are a group of people connected by e-mail, exchanging childhood
>> memories, opinions, ideas and arguments..
>>
>> The site started out as a genealogy research project. Former
>> Czernowitzers, their children and even grandchildren, people with
>> only the faintest connection to the city and making their home
>> thousands of miles away were and still are looking for relatives,
>> friends, neighbors former school mates. Once I wrote something, I
>> don't remember exactly what, which had nothing to do with genealogy
>> .upon which one man protested and wrote::
>>
>> "She shouldn't write about anything else! We have a project which is
>> the search for family and friends. Why should she want to discuss
>> other topics?"
>>
>> I was deeply offended and decided to resign from the group. But one
>> of the founders wrote back and said "it was not meant that way,
>> please disregard this, stay with us, just write about whatever you
>> wish!"
>>
>>
>>
>> In the meantime the group branched out and everything is being
>> discussed from childhood memories, events from long ago, the songs we
>> sang and listened to at that time, politics so voluble during our
>> troubled childhood and youth. Also the oddities of the Czernowitzer
>> German language., There is also great concern about the decay of the
>> jewish cemetery in Czernowitz and what is done about it. We receive
>> reports on how the city has changed submitted by people who returned
>> to our hometown after many decades in order to close a still open
>> circle, or to give in to nostalgia, and see if the house of their
>> birth is still standing. Mails go back and forth describing facts,
>> feelings and everything that comes to mind. All subjects are being
>> discussed meticulously and an argument or two is always welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems that, while I was away on vacation, I have missed a gripping
>> discussion on,, strawberries, big and small, healthy or not, and what
>> one can do with them in case one is not allergic. I hoped that
>> someone would put me up to date, but in the meantime other topics
>> became just as interesting. Genealogy has evolved into diverse other
>> directions. Last subject discussed was , strangely enough - stuffed
>> cabbage. Members came up with various recipes received from mothers
>> and grandmothers and the correspondence went back and forth for
>> quite a while until one member put his foot down and wrote:
>>
>> "We are out of stuffed cabbage! So what is next?"
>>
>> It really doesn't matter what's next, because as soon as I enter this
>> site, and I suppose others feel the same way, I feel that I am back
>> home in Czernowitz, the very first home I knew;. there were many
>> other places which I called home later, but none of them shaped me
>> into the person I became as the city of my birth did.. On this site I
>> am part of the people who understand me, understand my language, my
>> feelings and my very zany sense of humor..
>>
>> It's so good to belong.
>>
>> Lucca
>>
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