Let me tell you "my life story". I married a German. We have been married
for 67 years now but it took him a long time to accept the Czernowitz was
NOT Romania but a different world. For the Middle Europeans the world began
and ended in Germany - maybe Austria, acceptable of course was everything
West of Germany but "the East'?? My God who lived I n those Gipsy hovels??
So, as much as I tried to convince him that Cz. actually had running water
and houses made of stone -it didn't penetrate- and my parents in Law?!!!
In the 70s -of the last century?- I was saved by my cousin's son who went
to Vienna and found a book about Cz. and my husband called the children
from upstairs "look Mummy really lived in stone houses!!! As it was a
family gathering, all my family all from Cz., it was the most hilarious
afternoon.
Another episode was while I was working in Zurich for EL AL, after I got
married, a WIZO lady came to the office and asked me where I came from and
where my husband came from. After I told her she looked benevolently at me
and said ; you can choose whether you want to join the East or West
European WIZO?? that was 1952!!!
I am the meeting point between East and West, anny
On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Paul Heger <pheger_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I wonder you forgot another class of people, the religious Jews, who
> everyone recognized immediately and others who looked typical Jewish.
> Identified as a Jew, it did no matter where from you came, and where you
> were born, you were a b... Jew. In England they said "He jewed you,"
> meaning he cheated you.
> Paul Heger
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Jorge Gubitsch <dyurigub_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The Balkan story made me think. What a difference of reaction in
> > France, when I say that my mother came from Romania or from the
> > Austrian-Hungarian Empire! One is distinguished, the other not. To a
> > lot of people here, through recent inmigration, Romania is equal to
> > poverty, Gypsies and thieves. But as with the feared invasion of the
> > polish plumber, the big Gipsy inmigration didn't finally happen.
> > A part of the Balkans is in the south of Romania, and they have a kind
> > of "Southern" reputation (in the European sense), wich means good and
> > bad things, depending on your lifestyle and point of view.
> > It seems to me that when my grandfather travelled through Europe in
> > the30's it was no problem to say that you came from Bucharest, but
> > that you know better than me.
> >
> > A nice Sunday to everybody
> >
> >
> > Dyuri
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