RE: [Cz-L] Two Most Interesting Questions!

Iosif, Hardy, Mimi and Cornel...

Thank you so much for your outstanding comments on the two questions raised by Janina. Next time I'll be in Czernowitz, I'll try to visualize the data you provided to all of us.

Thank you all once again!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

http://hauster.blogspot.com/

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> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:01:30 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Two Most Interesting Questions!
> From: iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com
> To: bconcept_at_hotmail.com
> CC: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu; janina.wurbs_at_googlemail.com
>
> Dear Edgar,
>
> 1) The boundary between "lower" and "upper" districts roughly followed
> the line of
> Steingasse, Hauptstrasse, Schulgasse, St.-Nicolausgasse, and
> Russische-gasse, with some pockets protruding from both directions.
> The main evidence is architectural and demographic (your digitized
> address books provide an excellent resource for the analysis of
> distribution of occupations by street - thank you!)
>
> 2) The Austrian censuses notoriously did not recognized Yiddish as a
> separate language, but the Romanian did, the last one was in 1930. I
> don't have the numbers for Czernowitz, but for entire Bukovina the
> number of people who spoke "mainly" Yiddish was 74,300 (8.7% of total
> population, numbers from Enciclopedia Romaniei, Bd, 1, Bukarest 1938,
> p. 152, as quoted by Lichtblau and John,
> http://www.ibiblio.org/yiddish/Tshernovits/Lichtblau). This number
> significantly underestimates the total number of speakers, because it
> does not include those who indicated another language as the "main"
> one. In my estimate, more than half of Czernowitz Jews spoke fluent
> Yiddish in the 1930s.
>
> Iosif
>

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