Re: [Cz-L] Help Recognize / Translate

It is a question of what came first, the chicken or the egg?
Did they hate us because we would not speak Romanian? Or,
did we not speak Romanian, because they hated us?

And if they hated us because we had our noses in the air,
why did they hate the Besarabian Jews?

Mimi

On Apr 5, 2013, at 11:01 AM, HARDY BREIER wrote:

> This is one more cause the Rumanians hated us more that the Regat
> Jews.
> While the Regatler passed the war almost unharmed we were foreigners
> with our noses in the air - not Rumanians..
> They treated us accordingly.
> We shouldn't have been so proud for not knowing Rumanian.
> We showed off with our poor Rumanian.
> And we knew better Rumanian than we admitted.
> Hardy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miriam Taylor"
> <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> To: "B. Glaubach" <berti.glaubach_at_gmail.com>
> Cc: "'Jerome Schatten'" <romers_at_shaw.ca>; <czernowitz-
> l_at_list.cornell.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 4:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Help Recognize / Translate
>
>
>> 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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