Miriam dear, my deepest admiration and thanks for the wonderful tireless
work you and all the SVAT volunteers are doing for those we left behind.
I really like the sentence Cornel used "only in Cernowitz", I guess some
feel at home there only. If I remember it was you, Cornel, who felt like
going back too to the "old familiar places". I would have loved to see it
again however changed and unfamiliar it would look to me now. Regretfully I
can't turn the clock back.
Shabbat Shalom, anny
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:36 AM, cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
wrote:
> Mimi...I know 2 taxi drivers there who speak perfect Ivrit. As you
> say..only in Czernowitz. Cornel.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-119476449-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-119476449-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Taylor,
> Miriam R
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 9:43 PM
> To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: [Cz-L] Mad dogs and Czernowitzers go out in the midday sun.
>
> Taxi drivers in Czernowitz are likely to speak English, German, Italian,
> French and of course Ukrainian and Russian, but today I found one who spoke
> Romanian.
> The first problem was that I had to speak Romanian to him, The second was
> that he spoke "Moldoveneste" and I had A hard time understanding him.
> This morning I worked with the volunteers from SVIT Ukraine at the
> cemetery.
> We are now clearing areas 121 and 124, the volunteers from SVIT are
> clearing
> areas 122 and 122. The work is hard but we are of good cheer and proud of
> every small accomplishment.
>
> We cleared all around the grave of Cornel's father and I found the grave of
> the grandmother of Josef Eshet, whom I knew in my early childhood.
> I also passed near the grave of someone named Gutherz, shall I look for it
> And take a Photograph?
>
> After lunch I went for a walk on the Herrengasse. At the corner behind
> which
> Is the Cathedral Band of five musicians played "Alte Sclager" and I stopped
> to listen.
> After a while an elderly woman stopped to talk to them. A few minutes later
> She was singing many Ukrainian songs, I knew in my childhood and they were
> accompanying her. She also sang "Marinka" and then "Hava Nagila"
> And another Yiddish song.
>
> When she left, I asked one of the musicians: znayetz "sertzeh sertzeh"
> And the played this hit tune fro[m] 1935! What "a mechayeh"!
> Then I asked them to play "Bun ie vinul Giurgiului", which the did, As well
> as another Romanian song with a very catchy tune.
>
> ONLY IN CZERNOWITZ!
>
> Seit alle gesund,
>
> Mimi
>
>
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