Paul Celan wrote his most famous poem in both German and Rumanian, in fact
it was published first in Rumanian, sometimes in 1945/6.
[Berti Glaubach]
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:
> To give an example of how little Romanian we knew, consider the fact that
> 25 years after Czernowitz was annexed to Romania, I still knew the street
> names,
> including the one I lived on, only in German.
>
> Whenever asked where they were from, Czernowitzers would insist
> that they were not from Romania.
>
> Did any Jewish authors or poets from Czernowitz write in Romanian?
>
> Mimi
>
> On Apr 5, 2013, at 3:23 AM, B. Glaubach wrote:
>
> Yes but "grateful" has an orthographic mistake, it should be o after n
>> "recunoscatori". Mr Bruell the photographer had not yet in 1927 learned
>> enough Romanian - like most of the other Czernow. Jews. The word derived
>> from Latin cognoscere to know, came out as if it had the root nascere, to
>> be
>> born, and it does not exist in Romanian in this form.
>> There are hundreds of this sort of mistakes, some made good jokes at the
>> time when we laughed at the Romanian our parents spoke - when they had to.
>>
>> [Berti Glaubach]
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