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

Hardy,

Sorry if I made impression that the word "tragically" should be taken
too literally. As I said, Mila Kunis clearly was speaking in jest, and
it was a journalist, who did not quite get it.

On a more serious note, "backwaterness" is hardly correlated with the
ability to speak German or recite Schiller at the age of 5 (and I
hope you realize, that 5-year-olds in Chernovtsy of the 1980s did
recite various good poets, including Schiller, if they or their
parents were so inclined). While many things had obviously changed in
Chernovtsy during the last century, the level of "backwaterness" in
the 1980s was very much the same as in the 1930s or 1910s.

best,
Iosif

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:12 AM, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> 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

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