Re: [Cz-L] Generalizing about the Cz Jewish Experience

Not quite true! At least not in Czernowitz!.

First, no one was truly rich, no one had a car, no one had a villa in
Sinaia.
We tried to speak Goyish, not completely successfully.
We dressed Goyish? Were not the best seamstresses and tailors Jewish?
We did not behave Goyish, we behaved "modern."
The same about our way of life.
Look Goyish? Mit aza nooz? (with such a nose?)
Not separate from Jews, we ate at Friedmans, bought Pastrami at
Steinmetz,
closed our stores on Saturday, opened them on Sunday afternoon, learned
Yiddish from Steingarg's fables.....

It is also not true that half the list members would not speak or
write to you.
It is my experience that most of us judged people by their character
and education,
not by where they lived.

Mimi
On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:21 PM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

> Emancipation :
> Another word for being rich.
> Speak Goish.
> Dress Goish.
> Behave Goish.
> Live Goish.
> Look Goish.
> Separate from Jews.
> If not what happened, half or more of the list members
> would certainnly not write or speak to me.
> We would have an Upper Cz -L and a Lower Cz-L.
> And two photo Albums too.
> Hardy

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