Like Charles, I too addressed my parents with "Der Papa" and "Die
Mama" and all my parents' friends,
as Tante and Onkel. Even though my parents spoke German to me, many
relatives spoke Yiddish
and I heard it daily and picked it up. Then in 1944 and 1945, I went
to the Yiddish school
and our first textbook was the fables of Eliezer Steinbarg.
In my experience, there was no strict differentiation between the
Yiddish speaking and German speaking
Jews of Czernowitz, nor between the poor and the wealthy. The very
religious and the assimilated Jews,
also mixed and were to be both found in the same family.
My father came from a desperately poor family in Manasteriska, my
mother, from a well to do Zionist family.
My great-grandparents, who moved to Czernowitz in 1879 - 80, were
Wiznitzer Hassidim and very strictly orthodox,
One of their daughters married a Viennese non-Jewish newspaper
correspondent.
Mimi
On May 31, 2011, at 6:17 AM, Charles Rosner wrote:
> Sorry Asher, you are mixing Alexander and Charles...
> It's me, Charles, who was born in August 1941 in Czernowitz.
> I got the French Citizenship in the late fifties. One day, in the
> seventies I asked for a new birth certificate: it took a few months
> and the answer came as "born in USSR", which was a big surprise for
> my parents and for me. Some twelve years later, with the help of a
> friend who was a French Consul abroad, I made a formal application
> to the president of the relevant "tribunal administratif" in order
> to get this corrected. It took again a couple of years, but since
> then my birth certificate correctly states that I was born in
> Rumania...
[snip]
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