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From: Judith Thomas <judith_thomas95_at_yahoo.com>
To: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>=20
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Steinberg
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When we were sent to Transnistria in 1941 I was 3 years old. =C2=A0In our h=
ome we spoke only German in the three different camps we were, people spoke=
German and Yddish. =C2=A0I still remember adults laghing at me when I brok=
e my German =C2=A0trying to make sound Yddish.=C2=A0=C2=A0Colin Powell the =
Joint Chief of Staff during president Bush also speaks Yddish fluently beca=
use as a young man he worked in a Jewish store in New York. =C2=A0I started=
school in Bucharest. =C2=A0We continued to speak German at home but my old=
er=C2=A0Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.eduand I spoke Romanian. =C2=A0After moving to=
=C2=A0Israel my sister and I switched to speaking Hebrew.
[Judith Thomas]
From: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
To: 'Ruth Levin' <rutele.vin_at_gmail.com>; 'Alexander Gelman' <gelman.alexan=
der_at_gmail.com>=20
Cc: 'Charles Polak' <charles.polak_at_bbc.co.uk>; 'Shelley' <shemit65_at_gmail.co=
m>; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 9:48 AM
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Steinberg
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Ruth, Yiddish did not start as a "secret language"....it was basically medi=
eval German taken east by the moving Jews...who added words derived from He=
brew,Aramaic and from the languages of the surrounding populations. It was =
certainly used by Jewish traders etc since being written using Hebrew lette=
rs it was not likely to be read by non-Jews.=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Cornel.
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