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
On Aug 9, 2015, at 12:03 AM, Hardy Breier wrote:
> Czernowitzerisch had no Umlaute:
>
> Gruen was grin
> Oesterreich was estereich
> Bruecke was brike
> Tuerkengasse was tirkengass
> usw
>
> Hardy
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