Re: [Cz-L] Help Recognize / Translate

No, the Jews of Iasi spoke Romanian, they had never been ruled by
Austria.
The Romanians murdered them just the same.
Nothing that the fascists did to Jews can be explained by reason or
logic.

Mimi
On Apr 7, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Saraf, Oren wrote:

> And what about the Jews of Iasi?
> Did they speak German too?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-79083343-34370314_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-79083343-34370314_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
> Miriam Taylor
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 10:37 PM
> To: HARDY BREIER
> Cc: B. Glaubach; 'Jerome Schatten'; czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: 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
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