Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

I am familiar with this phenomena, some people transferred
their Czernowitz snobbery to the US. My Czernowitzer uncle
who had moved to the US in 1933, even though he had grown up
speaking Yiddish and German, would speak only English to my mother,
knowing fine well that she did not know the language.

In his opinion, being from Europe was just not up to snuff.

Mimi
On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:43 AM, Kim Dramer wrote:

> [Plain text please... thanks]
>
> My great-grandfather, Karl Singer, left in 1897 and settled in
> Brooklyn. B=
> y 1910, the family had a live-in servant, attesting to their
> fortunate fina=
> ncial situation. My father reported that when somebody spoke in
> Yiddish, m=
> y great-grandfather would turn and ask: "Did somebody understand
> what he s=
> aid?" Total snobbery and self-inflated view. In fact, so
> ridiculous in Am=
> erica, but so important in Europe.
>
> Kim Dramer
>

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