[Cz-L] Bessere Menschen.

Czernowitzer Jews came in two layers:
  The "Bessere Menschen "the better people , so called sarcastically by the
rest.
  The rest - the Schleppers. Not so well- to- do.
   The Bessere Menschen were rich, well educated , assimilated , conceited.
    Speaking good German, avoiding Yiddish, avoiding Schleppers.
      Well dressed , well fed, the cream of society.
      Uptown people.
     English lessons , piano lessons, beauty parlors , Schmettentorte,
       magnificent marble headstones .
      They despised the Schleppers , avoided them if possible.
      They were the top.
    The Schleppers were poor.

       All the Bessere Menschen were Schleppers initially.
     But this was time ago and better not mentioned.
Hardy

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