Re: [Cz-L] GQ magazine: "Chernovtsy was a kind of notorious backwater"

Iosif,
 Milena gives her impression of Soviet Czernowitz of the 1980 -ies.
She was 8 years old when she left.
  She gives antisemitism as one of the main reason fo leaving.
   Her remarks are not a "tragically inadequate representation.."
    They are her impressions.
    Chernivtsi was a notoroius backwater.
      Remember this:
     Her family were not German speakers.
      She didnt grow up in " Little Vienna."
        She did not recite Schiller when she was 5.
       But what she says has a much larger echo than anything we do.
      Because she made it and we are proud of her.

Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "iosif vaisman" <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>
To: "czernowitz-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 7:47 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] GQ magazine: "Chernovtsy was a kind of notorious backwater"

> Mila Kunis was featured as a "Knockout of the Year" in the Men of the
> Year issue of the GQ magazine
> (http://www.gq.com/moty/2011/mila-kunis-gq-men-of-the-year-issue).
> Speaking about her place of origin, Kunis tried to be
> self-deprecating, but the reporter took it at face value, and as a
> result the GQ readers are left with tragically inadequate
> representation of our hometown:
>
> _In Soviet context, Chernovtsy was a kind of notorious backwater. "It
> wasn't, like, a full-on village," Kunis protests with a giggle. "We
> had a movie theater. Streets were paved. We had a normal school." She
> enjoyed those fine amenities until second grade, when her parents
> moved the family to L.A._
>
>
> Iosif
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