Dear Margaret,
I am afraid that your mother did know Yiddish, but denied it.
Otherwise how could she speak to your father before marrying him? If
he spoke only Yiddish...
Prejudices, prejudices...
On 12 January 2017 at 01:01, Margaret Gross <margaretgross_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> My mother grew up in Czernowitz between wars, speaking only German at
> home. (Roumanian in school) She came from an upper middle class
> household, and was proud of the fact that she learned yiddish after
> marrying my father. He came from Bessarabia, and spoke only yiddish.
>
> My grandparents came to Czernowitz after WWI from Galicia in Poland.
> They spoke
> Yiddish
> German
> Polish
> Russian
> Ukrainian
>
> Although in Roumaina, 1918-1950, they never learned to speak it. I am
> not sure they even understood it.
>
> --
> Margaret Gross
>
> "dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum"
>
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