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Ukrainian Jew:

--- Quote from: ChabadKahanist on August 04, 2014, 11:58:27 PM ---On my father's side my Grandfather from Tarnipol & my Grarandmother from Kiev both spoke Yiddish & absolutely no Ukranian or Russian.
On my mothers side my Grandfather from Moldova & my Grandmother from Bylorus spoke both Yiddish & Russian.

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Do you mean Ternopil? That's near me, 2 hours by train. I have relatives from there from my father's family (non-Jewish). When did your grandfather live in Ternopil? Until recently most Jews there spoke Russian, there are barely any left, but now most of them speak Ukrainian.

ChabadKahanist:

--- Quote from: Ukrainian Jew on August 05, 2014, 01:31:00 AM ---Do you mean Ternopil? That's near me, 2 hours by train. I have relatives from there from my father's family (non-Jewish). When did your grandfather live in Ternopil? Until recently most Jews there spoke Russian, there are barely any left, but now most of them speak Ukrainian.

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Yes but in Yiddish it is called Tarnipol.
He lived there before world war 1 & before the communists.
Both sets of grandparents all left what was the Russian Empire before it became the Soviet Union.
My father's parents spoke neither Russian nor Ukranian only Yiddish & of course English because they grew up in America when they left the Ukraine.
Maybe because A.That's all their parents spoke with them & B They left when they were young kids.
My grandfather's older brother Moishe spoke Polish & German & I guess in those days Polish & German were spoken in Tarnipol & Galicia region in general.as at before it was part of the Ukraine it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire & later Poland

Ukrainian Jew:

--- Quote from: ChabadKahanist on August 05, 2014, 01:47:21 AM ---Yes but in Yiddish it is called Tarnipol.
He lived there before world war 1 & before the communists.
Both sets of grandparents all left what was the Russian Empire before it became the Soviet Union.
My father's parents spoke neither Russian nor Ukranian only Yiddish & of course English because they grew up in America when they left the Ukraine.
Maybe because A.That's all their parents spoke with them & B They left when they were young kids.
My grandfather's older brother Moishe spoke Polish & German & I guess in those days Polish & German were spoken in Tarnipol & Galicia region in general.as at before it was part of the Ukraine it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire & later Poland

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I didn't know that. Yiddish sounds like a beautiful language- much more than German (no offense).

Super Mentalita:
We already met on some topic but welcome!  ;D

Ukrainian Jew:

--- Quote from: Super Mentalita on August 05, 2014, 11:24:02 AM ---We already met on some topic but welcome!  ;D

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Thanks! I do feel quite welcome by the way.

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