When you are a Yekke
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When you are a Yekke
You find
satisfaction
In knowing your name
Is of German
Extraction.
All other names
You treat with
distain
For only true Yekkes
know
"what's in a
name"
Felsenstein,
Katzenstein
Ullman and Scheuer
Westheimer,
Hildesheimer
Merzbach and Meyer
Metzger and Vronker,
Sulzbach and Tietz
Pappenheim,
Wuerzburger, Glueckstadt and Deitz
When you are a Yekke
You have got
obsessions
Time and a watch
Are your cherished
possessions.
If there is a
meeting
Called promptly for
8
You arrive early
And the whole world
is late
Steinschneider, Frankfurter
Reinhard and Kahn
Jesselsohn, Neuhaus
Benheim and Hahn
Weichselbaum
Bravmann and Haas
Herzfeld and
Gruenspecht
And Dulden and Maas.
Being a Yekke is a
Full time occupation
One even wears a tie
When one goes on
vacation.
When you are a Yekke
You never relent
Even your foods are
Of German descent.
Gurken and Grimsel
Hanokas mit Tomaten
Griesbrei and Rotkraut
Pfifferling and
Sauerbraten
Haferschleim,
Gugelhupf
Forelle and Pretzel
Schleie mit mayonais
Kartoffel kloes and
Spaetzel
When you are a Yekke
You can always be
proud
That you are a
member
Of the illustrious
"Crowd".
Forchheimer,
Pforzheimer
Wimpfheimer, Stein
Mueller and Bender
and Vogel and Rhein
Halberstadt,
Kaufmann
Bondi and Stern
These are the
original
Names you must
learn.
Neuberger,
Neuburger,
Munk, Loeb and Hess
Schwarzschild and Rothschild
And Rosenblueth, no
less.
Koschland, Strauss,
Levi
Fraenkel and Weil,
Frohwein and
Schlesinger,
There is no end to
this file
What will happen to
the generations
When they break out
of the mold
Forgetting their
yekkisch yichus
And marrying out of
the fold?
Only time will tell
'bout our future fate
If Moshiach is a
Yekke, why is he so late?
Further reading:
-
Who is a Yekke? (Google search results)
-
Yekkes (2012, Coffeeroom, TheYeshivaWorld)
-
"יקה" מקור
השם, משמעותו, בדיחותיו וגילגוליו
/ זאב גלילי
-
The Story of the Yekkes – Jewish Germans in the Land of Israel … / פרידריך, פה זה ארץ ישראל – כשהייקים הגיעו ארצה (anumuseum)
- ארגון יוצאי מרכז אירופה / אור יקרות: מפעל ההתיישבות הציוני של היקים בארץ ישראל
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The Archive for the History and Heritage of the German-speaking Jewry in Israel (ובעברית)
-
Khal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ) in Washington Heights,NYC
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