A Yekke (also Jecke) is a Jew of German-speaking origin. [1] 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."

Among the various ethnicities and cultures that make up Klal Yisrael, the entirety of the Jewish nation, a special place is occupied by Yekkes, Jews from Germany. Punctilious and particular, the stereotypical Yekke is a creature of habit, reliable, devout, and exact.

2018年4月30日 · Much like Jews from Arab lands, who were given offensive nicknames, German immigrants too suffered mocking insults. They were called “The Yekkes”, one interpretations of which being a Hebrew acronym for “fails to understand”, or simply – stupid. A bit strange, given that during the 1930’s, seven Nobel Prize laureates were German Jews.

2009年5月28日 · It was a nickname given to the German Jewish immigrants who arrived in Palestine after the rise of the Hitler regime. There are two theories about the origin of the word: 1. It comes from Jacke...

2023年8月8日 · Yekke is a (generally!) affectionate Yiddish term for German Jews. It’s derived from the German word jacke (jacket) and was potentially invented by Eastern European Jews to distinguish their communities: German Jews were often regarded as being well-dressed, assimilated and preferring to wear a short suit jacket rather than, say, the long ...

2004年5月17日 · The yekkes were among the minority of Jews in pre-state Palestine who lobbied for the rights of the Arabs, having brought to Israel a sensitivity to minority rights from their own experience in...

More than eighty years after the Hitachdut Olei Germania organized programming to help German Jews integrate into life in the Yishuv and to fight the stereotype of the Yekke, the Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin sends out a bi-monthly German and Hebrew-language newsletter and organizes weekly meetings for Israelis aimed at helping them integrate ...

Underwritten by a 250,000 euro grant from the German Foreign Office, a new databank seeks to preserve the last vestiges of German-Jewish life from around the world

2011年6月10日 · According to one version, "Yekke" came from the German word "Jacke," meaning jacket - an item of dress typical of Western European Jews. Others say, with a wink, that "Yekke" is the Hebrew acronym of the phrase "hard-of-understanding Jew."

A strong awareness of Yekke roots derives from the peculiarities of the community’s arrival in Israel, the reethnicization of Israeli Jewish society, Yekke parenting practices, the good relationship between Germany and Israel, and Irgun’s strength as an oficial association.