Re: [Cz-L] After we go

Yes Serah,
 That is what I imagined.
  If we didnt leave we would all be Russian speakers.
   But we left and somehow got new mother languages.
    Like Hebrew and more.
     But when I count it is in German.
Hardy
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From: "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] After we go

> Good question.
>
> I was brought up by my grandmother who was, at that time, speaking German
> to my father and to my aunt. She was speaking German to me as well but,
> when I was 3.5 my father has forbidden her to speak to me in German (the
> times were tough) .
> My grandmother's Russian was very poor so, when I started school, I was
> very embarrassed to discover that my Russian pronunciation was absolutely
> wrong. In the 70s I already spoke very good Russian.
> My mother, Dr Ada Kraft, is Dr Emmanuel Flor's niece. She lived in
> Chernovits for a short time before the WWII and was taken to Transnistria
> from there but she was born in Bessarabia.
> I can still understand German and Romanian but I don't speak these
> languages any more. My mother tongue is Russian and I also speak Hebrew.
> My generation grew up with the stories of the older generation telling us
> that Chernovits under the Soviet regime was a pale shadow of itself
> comparing to the pre-war times.
> Now it's even paler than before. The city stopped developing, the locals
> moved away, and it is now in the cul-de-sac of a 3rd world country.
> Yet, as I've already mentioned in my previous post, the old magic is
> still there, and they are trying very hard to revive it. G-d help
> them.....
>
> Serah Kraft
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