Re: [Cz-L] Us Romanians by Joel Rippel

What others consider us to be, is at least from this perspective
unimportant.
Between ourselves and to each one of us individually, we are
Czernowitzers
and Bukowiner with all this implies.

Mimi

On May 2, 2013, at 4:07 AM, <lapidotm_at_inter.net.il>
<lapidotm_at_inter.net.il> wrote:

> Dear Hardy,
>
> You are so right when we refer to ourselves between ourselves.
> However Israelis never distinguished between Romanians from the
> Regat and Romanians from Czernowitz. To them we were all "tot un
> Drac" (except we did not have the pronounced Romanian accent in our
> Hebrew). So yes, here we are Romanians, but whenever we were in a
> jocular mood, and asked where we came from, we always responded -
> we are Wiener, and then a question mark rose in the eyes of the
> local questioner, so we added, sure, BukoWiener
>
> Regards
>
> Mordecai

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