Hi all,
I have a funny story to tell about "the importance of being from Czernowitz.
My husband ( from Leipzig) and I worked in the same El Al office in Zurich
1953. One bright day,as we were working, a man our age strode into our
office, standing in front of me en face and then in profile asked me whether
I recognized him. I didn't. Don't remember his first name but last was
Deligdisch, mother's friends. Anyway, we started talking and he told me his
mother's suffering because she now has to play bridge with women she
wouldn't have let trespass her doorstep at home??!! I heard this
and "shared" in their plight. Next, he asked me whether I was married - my
husband got up from his desk behind me to be introduced BUT when I said he
was not from Czernowitz he ignored his presence and went on talking to me.
If not from home, no reason to be spoken to!!!
Regards and Shabbat Shalom,
anny
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> On Czernowitz marriages:
>
> Hardy is right, while we lived in Czernowitz and vicinity, people married
> within the circle of people they knew or occasionally they married the
> people they were introduced to, by friends and relatives. Once we left
> Czernowitz, Czernowitz or Bukovina brides were still considered by
> Czernowitz and Bukovina bachelors, the most desirable ones.
> They were good "Balebustes" (housekeepers), they were good cooks, they
> would
> not squander money, they would make their husbands proud to take them out,
> or to bring guests home.
>
> In the living room, they behaved like ladies, in the kitchen, they were
> good
> cooks and in bed, they were completely uninhibited. Or so was it believed.
>
> All my bachelor relatives were convinced of this and if they lived
> somewhere
> where there were no Czernowitz single young women, like Panama, or Curacao,
> they asked their relatives in Israel, to find one and send her to them.
>
> Mimi
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