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

Dear all,

wow, this is amazing - thanks so much to all of you!
Thanks, Edgar, for posting my questions, and thanks everybody else for so
quickly responding!

I heard the terms "upper" and "lower" town first from Josef Burg while
interviewing him in Czernowitz a few years ago. I believed them not only to
be topographical terms, of course.
I just heard from a Viennese singer who came to Yiddish Summer Weimar, and
whose family lived in Czernowitz, that they lived in the well-to-do
"Villenviertel", spoke German at home, but all knew Yiddish.

I am actually coming to all these questions via Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman =
-
when I first met her in 2004, I thought, her family which is often labeled
"Yidishist" would be an exception in using Yiddish while not being the
typical "lower" town inhabitant.
Reading more on the discussions in the Czernowitz press, for example about
the language everything being taught at school, and reading about a general
rise in the use of Yiddish in the 1920s (especially among the then younger
generation), my assumptions slowly change.

Thank you, Iosif, for pointing me to the Romanian census in 1930 - I only
knew of the earlier censuses and wondered about the YIVO encyclopedia
article on Chernivtsi, I wondered where from Andrei Corbea-Hoisie got the
info "In 1930, the majority of the Jewish population of Cern=C4=83u=C8=9Bi =
declared
Yiddish as their mother tongue."

And yes, I want to go through the address books more detailed than I did so
far - thanks to Edgar for that work!

Thanks a lot to everybody!
Mit vareme grusn funem yidish zumer Weimar,
Janina

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