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Are you (up to 3rd generation)
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yekkish |
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13% |
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Of yekkish descent |
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22% |
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Married to a yekke |
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18% |
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Not even remotely yekkish |
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40% |
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Once upon a Time I had a great, great anscestor...... |
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4% |
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red sea
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Tue, Jul 18 2006, 9:44 pm
The conversation by buying german products just got me curious, so take the poll........................I'll answer the poll too.
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Tefila
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Tue, Jul 18 2006, 10:12 pm
Yes but what diff does it make
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red sea
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Tue, Jul 18 2006, 10:16 pm
Tefila wrote: | Yes but what diff does it make |
None, like I said, just curious since lots of pple started stating their ancestry on the other thread.
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sarahd
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 4:56 am
Well, my aunt told me once that the family originally came from Regensburg in Germany. That was about 200 years ago - does it count?
My husband considers my father a yekke. Does that count?
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hadasa
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 5:03 am
My father was born in Germany to a family of Galitzianer descent - what does that make us?
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Raisin
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 5:36 am
My grandfather comes from frankfort-am-main. In fact his mother was a Kulp, who were a very well known family in Frankfurt. (They are mentioned in one of the Marcus Lehmehn books)
So I am exactly one 1/4 yekkish. But my maiden name was very german. My parents became lubavitch, so we are like the joke: Q. What do you get when you cross a lubavitcher and a Yekke? A. Someone who is always exactly5 minutes late.
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amother
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 5:36 am
My mother is a geires, and she's of german descent. But that's going back a few hundred years already.
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sarahd
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 6:05 am
hadasa wrote: | My father was born in Germany to a family of Galitzianer descent - what does that make us? |
Well, if you'd have asked someone before the war, they'd have called you Ostjuden (not a compliment .) Nowadays, fortunately, people aren't so hung up on where your family came from.
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mummy
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 6:34 am
Both of my mothers parents were from Germany. I am very much a yekke although Im Lubavitch (which sometimes drives me crazy)
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hardwrknmom
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 9:04 am
Yep- my mom was born in Germany.
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LikeMeDoes
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 9:32 am
No option for married to someone of yekkish descent.
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avigayil
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 9:33 am
Dh is yekkish on his fathers side.
Some of my father's side came from Austria too.
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chen
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 1:38 pm
My license plate says Proud 2BA LTVK (no, not really) but I have been told that I am more yekkish than the yekkes. Whatever THAT means!
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Mitzvahmom
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 1:43 pm
I am still tracing my family currently... I know on both sides they were Frum, until they came to the states.
My mother's side is Lithuanian/Ukraine/Russian
My father's side... Russian/Polish
Guess I am a mutt
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Blossom
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Wed, Jul 19 2006, 1:43 pm
I am still confused as what the exact meaning of Yekke means.....
And Yes to the Poll, my father is from Germany. We are Chassidish though. (Became real Chassidish after the war).
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