Yekke

A staunch Zionist and dedicated volunteer, born in Berlin on October 9, 1921, Esther Herlitz inherited many of her admirable traits from her beloved “Yekke” parents.

Esther Herlitz. 2009

Read them aloud once to yourself in a whisper, go over them once more in a louder voice, and then wait until the technician, Avraham “the Yekke,” arrives.

Irgun Zeva'i Le'ummi (I.Z.L.). 2009

Only a Yekke an affectionately derogatory term for a German Jew would arrive on the dot.

Archive 2007-08-01 Kylopod 2007

Only a Yekke an affectionately derogatory term for a German Jew would arrive on the dot.

Ethnic time Kylopod 2007

During the 1930s, the glut was so extreme that Yekke (German-born Jewish ) physicians on Moshav Ramot Hashavim worked in the chicken coops, because they could not find employment in their profession.

Haaretz.com headlines RSS 2010

Yekke; his mother, Rivka, the Arab Jew who survived the 1929 Hebron massacre; his childhood in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv; the deaths of both his parents.

Feministe 2009

The Likud became, infamously, an unworkable mash of working class entitlists and small business libertarians, of Sephardi rebels and Yekke didacts.

JTA - Recent News 2009

For FFB Jews, much of this soul-searching process does not happen — my father was Yekkish German Jew, my grandfather was a Yekke, I went to Yekkishe yeshivos, I pray at a Yekkishe shul, so I’ll be Yekkish until the Next World.

The King Without a Crown (or a yellow flag) | Jewschool 2007