Re: [Cz-L] Kriminalnik

Hardy how do you remember all that? You have a Minister-Kopf and should be
sitting in the Knesset! But for that you have no kriminalnik talents.
Lucca

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From: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:12 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Kriminalnik

> http://pics.livejournal.com/whasup/pic/00tedk1r
>
> At the West end of the Austriaplatz was the City Jail.
> We called it the " Kriminal". The inmates were "Kriminalniks".
> Criminals on the loose were also Kriminalniks .
> In Yiddish the word was " Tfisse " from the Hebrew "litfos"
> to catch
> First you had to get them.
> If you were going to sue someone , you made him a " Prozess "
> lawsuit.
> Probably from the Rumanian "Proces Verbal" -
> Catching them was elementary - no catch , no jail.
>
> Now it is a detention center - before being brought before a judge.
>
> Hardy
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