Re: [Cz-L] Resilience

In answer to Hardy's question about the language the Jewish residents
of Chernivtsi speak currently: Mostly they speak Ukrainian or Russian.
Unfortunately I know only a few words of each of these languages
and therefore cannot distinguish one from the other.
About 10% - 20% know Yiddish, but do not speak it amongst themselves.
In all the years I have been visiting Chernivtsi, I have met only 3
people,
who are the remnants of the German speaking Jewish population.
In the Jewish school they teach Ukrainian, Hebrew and English.
Possibly they also teach other languages.
Among the whole population of Chernivtsi it is possible to find people
who speak many different European languages. I have encountered
people, who in addition to Ukrainian and Russian, speak: German, Polish,
Romanian, Hebrew, French and Italian.

Mimi
On Feb 2, 2013, at 11:54 PM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

> All this is gone now.
> What is interesting today is what language do the remaining 1500
> or so speak ?
> Have any of our frequent visitors to Cz seen or spoken to those?
> About their future, life , thoughts ,sentiments ?
> In 2006 Dr Bursuc arranged a meeting with some of those
> and I sat with a couple of elderly Jews and the man told us his
> story.
> The wife, his second , was Russian.
> He said she was a Saint..
> I will not repeat here all the rest.
> A bloody tale. Of long knives. Made in Czernowitz.
> I will spare you this.
> Hardy
>

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