Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Many, perhaps most, of us Yanks tend to identify with their home state FIRST!

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

That's what my post said.

Study / Studying and working in Bydgoszcz [2]

As with any foreign city, employment on the books won't become a reality until you get a serious handle on the local lingo. You can't get a real job unless you know Polish well enough to communicate successfully with non--English-speaking locals.

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Better "Lodsch" than "Litzmannstadt" (Lieber Lodsch als Litzmannstadt), he-he!

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Incidentally, I meant "open" vowels-:)

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Polish is also unique among extant Slavic languages by virtue of her nasals.
Furthermore, I believe the other Slavic tongues have both long as well as short vowels, whereas modern Polish knows only short or "closed" vowels.

Again, Bulgarian is reported to have more tenses than Polish along with the tendency to include the nominal article as part of the word as in Romanian 'museu' (museum) vs 'museuL' (THE museum), whereas the final "l" represents the definite article, much as in Albanian or cf. Swedish "hus" (house) vs. "husET" (THE house lit. "house THE") etc.

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Usually that way, Milo. The minority can frequently understand, even speak, if not always well, the majority language.
Unfortunately, it rarely works in the reverse:-)

Many Dutch native speakers can understand German. Germans in The Netherlands?? It's gonna be English, German or nada!
Or Poles in Russia as yet another example. ALL Poles who grew up during the Communist Era had to learn Russian, some much older learned German rather than English. They understand Russian, but don't necessarily speak it.

Russians in Poland can probably finagle their way around the language, but can't really "speak" Polish. They'll likely use Russian, or, in a(n) [uncomfortable] pinch, English.

Closely related languages too are chocked with false friendsLOL

Life / Poland - what is your brand? [39]

When I looked at the Milka wrapper a short while ago, it was produced in Bludenz, Austria.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

..or understood enough to articulate it in an English recap-:) @Rich, that's like blaming the victim for the crime. Jews owe Poland? Shoe's on the other foot.

Life / Poland - what is your brand? [39]

I've tried Wedel Czekolada, but frankly Polish chocolate doesn't hold a candle to Milka:-)

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

I'm a historical Jew. We do Passover, Shevuot, and Di bakes sufganyot once a Purim for the kids.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

We all comment on matters outside our immediate experience, don't we?

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

'Cuz someone doesn't go to Church but once in a blue moon, yet keeps Christian in their heart, does it makes them a "pretend" Christian???! If that's cardiac religion, place me under cardiac arrest, I dare ya:-)

Oh, I have no family in Poland to which the present conflict applies, so I'm exempt from all the wranglingLOL

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

@Rich Hey, you're a historical Pole and I'm a historical Jew! LOL

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

They certainly don't behave Chosen! Many hide their filthy deeds beneath the shreimel aka cassock of pious fraudulence, making the rest of us honest, assimilated Jews look even worse than we already do.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Are you sure about that?

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

You don't know me-:)

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Not aware of Jews high up in the Sejm during Communist times as compared with East Germany, e.g. spymaster Markus Wolff, Klaus Gysi or Hermann Axen etc.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Yes, that's basically correct.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Sure, because the Jews en masse didn't want to convert to Christianity, a prerequisite for joining the military as well as the tradesmen's guilds-:)

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

@Rich, that's a typical cop out response. Christians did indeed lose their property, however not exclusively because they were Christians No matter how the Jews tried to ingratiate themselves into gentile society, the latter were never satisfied.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Only Madoff wasn't rotten because he was Jewish, while the Jews in question were stigmatized, victimized, displaced, and in most instances exterminated, SOLELY because they were!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

You're babbling again, Rich, almost as bad as Crow.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Is it heirless though, Maf ? This remains the salient question.
@Ironside, those demanding financial redress are only gangsters in Duda's mind:-)

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Ditto.
Jews were no more gangsters than all non-Jewish Poles were drunks or anti-Semites!
One generalization's as bad as another.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Israel considers Jews EVERYWHERE their business.
We seem to be losing sight of the basic bone of contention here, you people.
In the search for "heirs" to allegedly "heirless property", we've neglected to mention the fact that the Jews who were displaced in countries such as Poland, once again,

were there LEGALLY!! They were neither squatters nor beggars, nor foreigners in the technical sense, but rather citizens of another religious affiliation and a different ethnic origin.

Many though, were Polish nationalists through and through, such as Brzechwa, Tuwim and countless others who were proud to call themselves "Poles of Jewish heritage". A number, I read, fought in the Polish army side by side with gentiles, dying just as they died.

What's coloring this entire discussion is prejudice. As was quoted prior, non-Jews lost properties and businesses as did the Jews, yet somehow only the Jews were larger in number after WWII and applied for claims instead of merely taking a loss.

Why is that? Furthermore, what makes the claims of the Jewish property owners any less valuable than that of the gentiles who lost life and/or property?

No, folks, we're not going to arrive at any easy answers to this mess, I'm afraid.

@Maf & Tacitus, I sent you a private mail, but have yet to receive a reply:-)
@Ironside, I don't use GoogleTranslate to write Polish or any other languageLOL

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

A matter of opinion, Rich.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Is your English any more "incomprehensible" without some assistance from GoogleTranslate? Nice try to get me to crack-:)

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

That question remains open.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

I'm not the one embarrassing themselves.