[Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

     In a message which I sent to Christian, I explained my lack of
     familiarity with the northern, lower part of Czernowitz, which was
     mostly Jewish. I am afraid that part of what I wrote to Christian and
     which was included in his reply to me, which was sent to the whole list
     will be misunderstood, because I did not choose my words carefully.

     I wrote:
> Czernowitz was incredibly snobbish, even though many of the Jewish
> inhabitants were only one or two generations removed from the orthodox,
> the poor and the uneducated, once they were educated and rose above
> poverty, they wanted to have very little to do with the poor, uneducated
> and orthodox or the ones who did not speak German.
> Mind you, we did not deny our Jewishness, my parents and their friends,
> were actually proud of it and spoke and read good literary Yiddish.
> They also maintained good relations with their relatives who lived in
> the surrounding villages, but socially they kept their distance from those
> who lived in the lower town.

     When I wrote "educated" I meant that they had studied in a "Gymnasium"
     or "Lyceum" and had acquired a general education, not just a Jewish
     one.
     I also did not mean to imply that being orthodox was, or is synonymous
     with poverty and /or lack of education. Consider Zvi Yavetz.

     Nor do I think that this snobbishness, practiced by a large section of
     the Jewish population of Czernowitz, is to be lauded or liked.

     Mimi
      

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