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

Arthur, I agree with Cornel,
Our parents' generation wanted to improve their lives,
in all ways, including dressing well.
There is no virtue, either Jewish or general in wearing dirty shoes,
or not wearing a tie or a jacket.

And because we have been using the word "goy". I wonder
how and in what sense members of this list remember our parents'
generation using it.
In Hebrew this word means "a big nation", one of our forefathers,
I cannot remember which one, was promised by God, "I will make you
into a 'goy gadol'.
In my family, when we used the word "goy" we meant a peasant,
when we used the word "Goyim" we usually meant Christians.

Mimi

Quoting cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>:

> ARTHUR....GOISH??? Nein,VORNEHM!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-72522192-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-72522192-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Arthur
> von Czernowitz
> Sent: 14 December 2012 11:45
> To: Miriam Taylor
> Cc: 'CZERNOWITZ-L'
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Generalizing about the Cz Jewish Experience
>
> Dear Mimi,
> At the age of 90 I placed my father in a nursing home where some of
> the boarders were German speakers from Bukovina.
> When word got out that my father was in the nursing home, an old man
> came over and addressed my father in German ?Herr Rindner I remember
> you, you used to drive a Buick with a radio in the car?.
> I never knew this, when I asked my father about this, his response
> was ?so what?
> I know that very few people had radios in their homes at that time.
>
> My father always wore a suit, vest and tie, his shoes were always
> polished, mit Ein Glanz.(Goyish ??)
>
> Hag Sameach
>
> Arthur

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