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Yekke

Term describing a Jew of German-speaking origin

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AYekke (also Jecke) is a JewofGerman-speaking origin.^[1]

Demography and history[edit]

The wave of immigration to British Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s known as the Fifth Aliyah had a large proportion of Yekkes, around 25% (55,000 immigrants). Many of them settled in the vicinity of Ben Yehuda Street in Tel Aviv, leading to the nickname "Ben Yehuda Strasse." Their struggle to master Hebrew produced a dialect known as "Yekkish." The Ben Yehuda Strasse Dictionary: A Dictionary of Spoken Yekkish in the Land of Israel, published in 2012, documents this language.^[1]

A significant community escaped Frankfurt after Kristallnacht, and relocated to the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, where they still have a synagogue, Khal Adath Jeshurun, which punctiliously adheres to the Yekkish liturgical text, rituals, and melodies.^[2]

See also[edit]

• List of German Jews
• Chuts
• History of the Jews in Germany

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Gold, David L. (1981). "The Etymology of Yiddish Yeke". Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik (in German). 48 (1). Franz Steiner Verlag: 57–59. JSTOR 40502725.
• Weinbaum, Laurence; McPherson, Colin (2000). "No Milk and No Honey: The Yekkes and the Ostjuden". Jewish Quarterly. 47 (3): 25–30. doi:10.1080/0449010X.2000.10705191 (inactive 31 January 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)

External links[edit]

• Machon Moreshes Ashkenaz
• The American Yekkes (Yisrael Kashkin, 2016)
• K'hal Adas Yeshurun of Jerusalem Nusach Project