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Are you (up to 3rd generation)

yekkish

13%

[ 3 ]

Of yekkish descent

22%

[ 5 ]

Married to a yekke

18%

[ 4 ]

Not even remotely yekkish

40%

[ 9 ]

Once upon a Time I had a great, great anscestor......

[ 1 ]

Total Votes : 22

red sea

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.

shayna82

Tue, Jul 18 2006, 9:51 pm

yes!

Ruchel

Tue, Jul 18 2006, 9:58 pm

Centuries ago, yes.

ny21

Tue, Jul 18 2006, 10:11 pm

my answer is no .

Tefila

Tue, Jul 18 2006, 10:12 pm

Yes but what diff does it make Confused

red sea

Tue, Jul 18 2006, 10:16 pm

Tefila wrote:

Yes but what diff does it make Confused

None, like I said, just curious since lots of pple started stating their ancestry on the other thread.

sarahd

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?

hadasa

Wed, Jul 19 2006, 5:03 am

My father was born in Germany to a family of Galitzianer descent - what does that make us?

Raisin

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.

amother

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.

sarahd

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 Sad

.) Nowadays, fortunately, people aren't so hung up on where your family came from.

mummy

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)

hardwrknmom

Wed, Jul 19 2006, 9:04 am

Yep- my mom was born in Germany.

LikeMeDoes

Wed, Jul 19 2006, 9:32 am

No option for married to someone of yekkish descent.

avigayil

Wed, Jul 19 2006, 9:33 am

Dh is yekkish on his fathers side.

Some of my father's side came from Austria too.

chen

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!

Mitzvahmom

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 Wink

Blossom

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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