Ruth, how do you reveal such
Confidential info ?
Completely unreliable !!
Hardy
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From: bounce-121144899-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu [mailto:bounce-121144899-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Ruth Levin
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 10:51 AM
To: Alexander Gelman
Cc: Charles Polak; Shelley; Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Steinberg
Yiddish started as a secret language, but later in the centuries, when
Jews and Gentiles were living in the same neighborhoods or in the same
villages, everyone knew both languages.
[Ruth Levin]
On 12 January 2017 at 23:52, Alexander Gelman
<gelman.alexander_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Growing up in Chernowitz even as late as in 50s and 60s I new well not to speak Yiddish for secret.
> In our building for example (Now Soborna 5) one of the three non-Jewish families, the guy was a plumber, pan Seedack, spoke perfect Yiddish. If he spoke behind your back You would think it was a Jewish guy talking. But he was a bukoviner. My friend Vladimir Lyubimov, who still lives there, a son of a Soviet officer can get by with his Yiddish when needed.
>
> Alex
>
> Alexander Gelman, PhD
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