Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

From: Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:15:16 +0200
To: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Reply-To: Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com>

Since I was born in a religious family, who spoke Yiddish, kept an orthodox
way of life and educated the children in Jewish "holy" traditional culture,
let me make two comments.
1. The division between the "emancipated" and the traditional segments of
the Czernowitzer Jews was not the consequence and the division between rich
and poor. There were rich or affluent orthodox people, and likewise poor
"modern" people.
2. The "emancipated" Jews did not attempt to have intimate relationship
with the orthodox, probably - as I cannot speak for them, not being born in
their society- also because they did not have a common language, in the
sense of similar subjects and opinions to foster a close connection, in
addition to some who looked down on the orthodox as uneducated etc.

At the same time, the orthodox were proud of their heritage, called the
modern Jews "Daitschen," and mocked their inability to read the prayers in
Hebrew, reciting the Kaddish in the Temple by reading from a Sidur printed
in latin characters, and the other customs, such as the organ music in the
Temple and the special hat of the "Rabbiner," behaving like the
"Goiim." Hence it was a "two-ways" estrangement.
Paul Pessach Heger
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 7:00 AM, HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:

> Mimi's story is only a very superficial explanation.
> The truth is that most Jews did not want to be Jewish.
> If was not a very big Metzie - bargain that is.
> Except the ultra religious who believed they were the chosen people
> by the Almighty .
> We were born Jewish , by coincidence.
> Became special by circumstances.
> In Habsburghia of the 19 century an opportunity arose.
> Emancipation allowed the affluent Jews to grow mustachios
> drop the Talles and the Yarmelke and the Yiddish and their
> ancestry and move up - away of Jewishness.
> Even the lower income Jews were following suit.
> Not very successfully.
> ( This is a very much simplified version for the beginner)
> Hardy
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