Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology

Man darf das nicht laut sagen, aber wahr ist es trotzdem.
(It is not allowed to say so aloud, but it is still true)

I once met an American woman in Italy. We were not introduced,
but soon discovered that we were both Jewish and European.
I asked her where she was from, she told me that she was from Poland
and immediately said: You are from the Bukovina.
I answered: Yes, from Czernowitz. To this she said: Ahhhhhhh!

Make what you want of this,

Mimi
On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:57 AM, cornel fleming wrote:

> That is because obviously Czernowitzers ARE a superior breed!! C.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-72513194-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-72513194-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
> Miriam Taylor
> Sent: 12 December 2012 22:08
> To: Jacob Greenberg
> Cc: CZERNOWITZ-L
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Explanation and Apology
>
> Possibly Snobbishness is in the air of Czernowitz.
> Both the kind which differentiate between those who live in one
> part of
> town, versus those who live in another and the kind which makes
> Czernowitzers or Chernovtians feel superior to anyone else.
> A few years ago, I told a Chernivtsi teenager that Czernowitzers
> were very
> snobbish, to this she answered that they still are.
>
> Mimi
>
>
> On 12/12/12 1:09 AM, "Jacob Greenberg" <grs_software_at_bigpond.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mimi,
>>
>> It's funny that you mention the snobbish residents of the central
>> part of
>> the town.
>>
>> The same situation continued during the Soviet times. We felt a
>> strong
> sense
>> of superiority towards the Jews of the "Volgogradskaya" (the lower
>> part)
> who
>> spoke Yiddish at home, were less educated, attended the less
>> prestigious
>> schools, and their Russian was heavily accented.
>>
>> Serah
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