Re: [Cz-L] Help Recognize / Translate

In 1945 - 46, not many Czernowitzers wanted to speak German.
Later they realized that despite the Holocaust, it was their language.
The question is also; where did Paul Celan live at the time?

Mimi
On Apr 5, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Berti Glaubach wrote:

> Paul Celan wrote his most famous poem in both German and Rumanian,
> in fact it was published first in Rumanian, sometimes in 1945/6.
>
>
> 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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