RE: [Cz-L] 115 year old postcard from Charles Polak on 2014-03-09 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Charles Polak <charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:23:00 +0000
To: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, "Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-To: Charles Polak <charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk>

I find the idea of some German-speaking smartarse or clever-clogs (whether an ethnic German or a local Jew who identifies with the German language) making a truism or mere cliché of how congenitally stupid Slavic hill-people are extremely repugnant and racist. Probably that was part of the mind-set in Austria-Hungary: not a lost paradise, but a precursor to the worst that was to come in the inter-War years and the Shoah.

Charles Polák
mailto:charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk

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From: bounce-112949989-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-112949989-3499287_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of HARDY BREIER
Sent: 6 March 2014 05:31
To: CZERNOWITZ-L
Subject: [Cz-L] 115 year old postcard

http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/alexgreint/68850798/33893/33893_900.jpg

Postcard from 1899. With picture of Huzuls.

  And so writes the man:
   " Dumb as the night
     But decent and willing
      Hearty greetings
from ,

Marcel

Hardy
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