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Why do we call this discussion "being Romanian" and not being Czernowitzer.
We claim to have never been real Romanians yet we have this discussion with
this title? I went to a German speaking elementary Meisler Schule, I think
we had lessons in German because I could write Gotisch letters, we learned
Romanian as a subject and took our exams in it. I belonged to the Romanian
scouts "stragerile Regelui" (King's scouts)
anny
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net> wrote:
> We did not go to German schools. The German we picked up was poor.
> But we knew Schiller ,Goethe and Busch.
> We spoke German free as the robin sings,
> We read and wrote . Until the Soviets we banned Yiddish.
> Then it revived but we didn't know the alphabet.
> A people without a land and language .
> A people kept alive by its religion.
> We were not religious.
> Wandering Jews who couldn't read what their fathers tombstones said.
> Rumanian we knew even less. Russian minimal. Ukrainean zero .
> "But we were happy as can be,
> Doing what comes naturally !"
>
> Hardy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miriam Taylor [mailto:mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2015 6:58 PM
> To: Hardy Breier
> Cc: 'cornel fleming'; 'Jorge Gubitsch'; lapidotm_at_inter.net.il; 'Fred
> Weisinger'; 'Shelley'; 'Anny Matar'; 'Lloyd Marksamer';
> 'Czernowitz-L_at_cornell'
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Being Rumanian
>
> Hardy, you are right, among us we mostly pronounced German words as if
they
> were Bukovinian and Galizian Yiddish, but I remember a close friend of my
> mother, with whom we lived for a while, during the war, drumming it in to
> me
> Sage nicht "grin", "sheyn", komm "hinaus",
> Sage: "gruen", "schoen" und "komm heraus".
>
> Mimi
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