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- noun Plural form of
Yekke .
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They were part of a huge wave of Jewish immigration that horrified the "Yekkes", the urban, professional Jews whose ancestry was at least a century more American.
New Statesman 2009
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But to the Jews of Germany, the Yekkes, this delicacy was unknown.
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