Hi Andy,
I was one year after you at the Elite, made the Aufnahmspruefung to the Aron
Pumnul Gymnasim in 1940
and then of course went to a Russian school because of the well known
events. About the courses at the Elite you are totally right, everything was
in Romanian and additional courses for German and French. Curiosity: our
German teacher was a Fraeulein Deutsch, the name of the French one I don't
remember, but I still visualize her as an old lady (she must have been much
younger than we are now) who made us dance to the music of "Sur le pont
d'Avignon on y dance, on y dance...). She had a golden Cross pendant and was
very nice to everybody.
We did not speak Romanian at home because our parents were poor Roumanian
speakers. My father was a lawyer and had to know the language, but had a bad
accent and made mistakes. My mother knew a little the language and improved
her Romanian considerably after coming to Israel and conversing with her
neighbors.
We spoke Romanian with our Romanian classmates at school, but German (or
Czernowitzerisch if you prefer) to the Jewish ones. It was a natural
continuation from the language we spoke at home. Of course everybody had a
different background at home and the German he brought along to the
conversation with his friends was different,
Miss Deutsch was supposed to level that out.
Had 2 German (from Rosch) classmates, with them too we spoke Romanian.
I knew Mr. Hersonski - he spoke well Romanian and probably taught you in
the language all the textbooks were written in.
Berti
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, andy halmay <andy_venivici_at_yahoo.com>
wrote:
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