#yekke

[thejewitches]

A siddur from 1937, in accordance with the German & Polish tradition. Sold via Instagram.

[hyperpotamianarch]

I chose other, because my father's family is French - which I would like to elaborate on a little.

My paternal grandmother was born and raised in Strasbourg, on the border of Germany. It's in the region of Alsace, which throughout history switched hands between France and Germany multiple times. My Grandmother speaks a little German and Alsatian as well as French and Hebrew, though her mother is more fluent in German than her. I never got to meet her father. My great grandparents only married after the Holocaust, and I only know about them that my great grandfather's family escaped by moving around rural Alsace. They had to hide being Jewish.

My paternal grandfather's family is another story. My father is fifth generation Parisian - his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all born in Paris. My grandfather's great grandfather was probably born in another town in Alsace - Colmar. I make this assumption based on the fact my great grandfather's great grandfather served as a rabbi in this town and was actually the chief rabbi of the Consistoire of Alsace - which is a detail that could doxx me if it wasn't so long ago that he has myriads of descendants and nobody would actually bother looking up the chief rabbi of the Consistoire of Alsace. If for some reason you do have a list of the rabbis there available I'm more likely to want to talk to you than worry that you'll doxx me.

My grandfather's parents also only married after the war. My great-grandfather served in the French army at the Maginot line, and we all know how that ended. He was in a German PoW camp for the duration of the war - specifically one for the Jewish soldiers. They worked in a shoe factory there, I believe? Under inhumane condition, until my great-grandfather and the guy running the factory collected a bunch of bed bugs and threatened to unleash them on the Nazi overseer. That got them slightly better conditions.

My great-grandmother's family was particularly targeted by the Nazis, because my great-great-grandfather has managed to antagonize a member of the Nazi party once. Luckily, through a friendly tip from a phone operator he caught wind of it in time and fled to Switzerland.

My maternal side of the family comes from various Eastern-European countries, each great grandparent from a slightly different background. The only direct Holocaust survivor was my grandmother's father, who came from Hungary. He has a long story that includes serving in the Hungarian army and somehow surviving the death marches even though he had trouble walking, I don't really remember all the details.

Each of my three other great-grandparents fled Europe in time in their own different way. My Polish great-grandmother (married to the Hungarian Holocaust survivor, both passed away by now) barely managed to flee on the last ship before the invasion. My maternal grandfather's parents are both technically Belarusian, but they only met in Israel. My great-grandfather was a Chabad Chosid (before they became what they are now) who was also active in Zionist circles in the USSR and managed eventually to get a certificate and make an Aliyah. In Israel he chose to study in a Litvak/Musar Yeshivah, which if you know anything about the history of Chassidut is an interesting choice. I think he met my great-grandmother through the Yeshivah (no, she wasn't a student, it was an Orthodox Yeshivah. No, I don't really know the details). She has fled by fabricating marriage to a guy and went to live with relatives who already were here.

On that side, many of their relatives were killed in the Holocaust.

Either way, I'm mostly of Alsatian Jewish descent, and we have some different minhagim! As a general rule we are considered Yekkes, meaning German Jews, and our practices are similar. There are a couple of traditional foods that I don't actually like, and a lot of tunes that I do - we have a different tune for Shir HaMa'alot for every holiday and special Shabbats, and that's really fun! We also have a very particular tune for reading the Haggadah, but... Well... Yekke music tends to have a very distinct sound to it, and my mother's family tends to dislike it. For me it's nostalgic, for them it gets on their nerves.

I know I didn't gave to do that, but I sometimes feel like my particular type of Ashkenazi Jews us too rare. For the most part, Ashkenazim in Israel get to choose between picking Polish traditions or Lithuanian traditions, and that perceived dichotomy tends to erase the finer details. So I wanted to share a little from my particular heritage.

Feel free to specify in the notes! Also sorry I was only able to list these.

[familymajed2]

Hello, how are you? I hope you are well. Is it possible to help spread the campaign because it is going very slowly? I am one of the oldest campaigns here and no one has helped me. Can I be contacted for assistance?Sorry about that

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[bellatrixdelrey]

if they dont make the blacks and the malfoys german speaking yekkes whats even the point

[cringelordofchaos]

WTF I DIDN'T WRITE THAT LAST POLL ANSWER

[hyperpotamianarch]

Well, I got the same result as Clownie. The description is less than accurate about me - I'm more the Yekke of my friend group, worrying about things being on time - but I am descended from a direct line of Jewish Polish mothers (though my grandmother denies relation to the stereotype). Plus, I fulfill the regular Polish-Jewish stereotypes in my house - I kvetch regularly.

Do Yekkes get Hollywood representation? I feel like they should, maybe they do but it's never Orthodox ones...

i made a quiz for jumblr!

what jewish hollywood stereotype are you

please enjoy

[abdalsalam1990]

Hello everyone when this post is published I will be asleep I need to rest and I can't stay on the phone for long so I hope you help me to publish this post and donate if you can please we are very close to 64 thousand euros help us to reach it quickly and thank you all

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[hyperpotamianarch]

I've never heard of Chareidim not mixing fish and milk. And we're not that much lactose intolerant! Like, in my immediate family only my mother and sister have strong reactions, and even they drink milk occasionally!

Adding to that, Sefaradim wait 6 hours between meat and dairy (as do most Ashkenazim, really, but I'm a Yekke and I wait 3, so yay!), and are more prone to being stricter on signs for a hole in the lungs of a slaughtered cow, which makes meat more expensive.

No, I'm not grasping at straw here, how dare you insinuate that?! More seriously, though, every tradition has ups and downs. Honestly, the "Bechezkat" laws aren't that bad - from what I know, they just don't allow you to eat the thing cooked in a pot/oven that was used for meat/dairy in the last 24 hours with dairy/meat, respectively. There's also Hag'alat Kelim, which is a story unto itself. To be honest, I don't remember all the rules for that all that well - possibly because I'm not running a household.

i love learning more abt sephardic kashrut rulings bc it’s always stuff that would give my ashkenazi roommate an aneurism like what do u mean pasta is pareve no matter what pot u make it in bc it’s the water cooking it and not the pot. glass doesn’t become treif so you just need to wash it with soap and water. use the dishwasher for meat and milk bc the process of cleaning the dishes makes the scraps no longer food and therefore does not treif the dishes, which are glass so they can’t get treif’ed anyway. i love it.

[fadel-dani]

🚨🚨Merry Christmas My body is full of iron fragments😭

Have you ever been frustrated? I don't think so. I felt it today. I had to see the doctor because of the severe pain I have been in for two days, but unfortunately I couldn't go because I didn't have the money for the examination and also I didn't have the money to take a taxi to the hospital😭.

I'm frustrated because for two days I have only collected two donations😭😭 so I hope all my friends donate to me or write me a new post on their pages so that the whole world can see how much pain I am in and so that they can help me collect the costs of my surgery as soon as possible.

I have only collected 600/10,000 euros. This amount is too small to be able to have my surgery as soon as possible 😭😭😭

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[appsa]

Israeli air raids have killed dozens of people, including children, in northern, central, and southern Gaza, Palestinian officials and media have said, as the besieged territory endures its 44th day of bombardment.

At least 31 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza, officials say.

Mohammed ayesh and his family are currently at Nuseirat and are in constant danger due to the bombardment and right now the best thing you can do to help is to please donate to his fundraiser. Money raised will go towards his family's daily expenses as well as to help his younger brother repair his hearing aids that were damaged during this time.

Ayesh ( @ayeshjourney ) has been running the @gaza-evacuation-funds account and verifying fundraisers on the ground, all while also being a healthcare worker in a warzone. Please show him appreciation for his hardwork by donating anything you can spare to his fundraiser.

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[plushiefucker]

25th September 2024: I'm writing this on behalf of Ahmed ( @ahmed-gaza27 ), who has had his blog deleted TWO TIMES thus far. he has only raised €2,518 out of €20,000. he is extremely low on funds and desperately needs your help !! please, PLEASE consider donating and sharing !!!

here is his gofundme. if you can't donate, then i urge you to still reblog and share it with a friend !

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[maester-cressen]

While many posts about fundraisers talk about the physical suffering endured by Palestinians for over a year – which are very important to talk about – I rarely see any mention on the mental toll Palestinians face in these dire circumstances. The lack of protection from the cold not only makes you feel cold – it makes you feel impotent, lost, unable to move. Food insecurity makes you desperate to cling to any sort of nutrient. The fear of being killed will translate to PTSD for the rest of their lives for every Palestinian survivor. Now imagine all of that, but tenfold, if you need to care for a child and/or an elder.

Israa has confessed this to me in a private message. She's a mother of two children and daughter of a disabled man that has lost so much – from family members to protection for the weather to personal belongings. She has shared this to me:

[Image description: A screenshot of a tumblr message containing the following text. I am ashamed to ask for this, but I don't have anyone. I am lonely and helpless. My whole family is dead. Only my father and my two children remain, my father has cancer and has a seat (paralyzed) and my child has an epidemic liver. We are now on the street. There's nowhere to go, we're in trouble, yesterday we were displaced again, but not as before. It's the hardest time. It's shooting and firing a rocket. We barely ran away from the tent and we didn't take anything. Now we're on the street I'm a little girl. I don't know how we'll protect ourselves. If we don't die of bullets, we'll die from cold and winter. Please, help me! End image description]

I often think about how this genocide has impacted the mental health of the survivors, and this message above is one of the thousands of examples. People are afraid to lose the very little they have. People wish they could die to get out of this situation. People are clinging on to however little help they can get. And I hope we can provide Israa some help!

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[amjo429]

We are still here, caught in the middle, waiting. Standing motionless, unable to move forward into the future, nor return to the past. We are trapped in this endless pause, helpless—helpless to the point that even time itself seems to have abandoned us😔💔

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[familymajed2]

Years ago, my shops were my livelihood, my family was happy with the fruits of my labor, and hope was renewed every morning. But as everyone knows, war and destruction do not spare anyone. I lost everything... my shops, my work, and my dreams that were built day after day.

Today, I am writing to you in dire need of your help. After losing my livelihood and my family's resources, I face great challenges in securing a living amidst high prices and the pressure of difficult living conditions. Gaza is in pain, and we are all living under the weight of bombing and siege, but hope in you, in your support, is what gives me the strength to continue.

Every small donation, every support from you, will make a big difference in our lives. If the campaign has progressed slowly, your presence with us will accelerate our steps towards rebuilding what we have lost, towards securing a better future.

Please participate in this campaign, and help spread this appeal to those who can support us. We need you more than ever.

Friends, anyone who can help spread the campaign, please be by our side in these circumstances.

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[a-shade-of-blue]

I want to bring your attention to Jana's (@janaabunaje) campaign because her family is falling apart due to the genocidal war in Gaza. The extremely high cost of basic necessities in Gaza is causing a huge financial strain on the family. This not only means a lack of food and water for the children, but it is also driving her parents apart. Jana's father wants to divorce her mother due to the lack of money. Jana is really worried about her family, she is really worried about how they are going to survive, and Jana is only 11 years old.

Jana also has 2 little brothers ages only 9 and 5. Their father was injured in a bombing and thus can no longer work. Now there are no jobs for both their mother and their father. There is no money for them to buy food, there is no money for them to buy clothes and blankets to protect them from the cold and the rain. They are now living in a shabby tent that does not shield them from the weather well.

Imagine living through a literal genocide, with bombs falling all around you, no food, no water, and now your parents are going through a divorce! Jana and her brothers are so young, I don't know how they are dealing with this. Please help them! Every little bit helps!

This campaign is #132 on @/gazavetters vetted list, vetted by association!

Only €1,161 raised of €50K goal (2%)! Only 1 donation in more than 24 hours!

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[armandsdivorcelawyer]

@yekkes

Oh my god so glad you asked!!! There are many different types of Expat in Korea:

FB Rant Woman is who I’d classify as “First Time Minority.” There are many of these. They’re white people that usually believe that they now understand systemic oppression because they’re now a minority group in Korea and xenophobia exists. Probably doesn’t believe that they have white privilege in Korea.

Will say anything seemingly negative that happens to them is racism. Korean person not interested in having a serious relationship with expats that will most likely leave the country in the next 1-2 years? Racism. Korean person doesn’t understand their accent when they speak Korean (their pronunciation sucks)? Racism. It’s all racism. They understand now. Don’t you see, American Person of Color? Here, we’re the same 🫶🏽

Other types of expats are:

The Koreaboo

They love KPop and K-dramas and moved to Korea to find their oppar. This expat either has a Korean boyfriend who is an ugly loser or is attractive and clearly not taking the relationship as seriously as she is, or a revolving cast of Korean boyfriends that changes so fast you never can actually learn their names. You would warn her that most men looking to date foreign women are only really looking for casual relationships, but she’s insufferable so you don’t bother.

If she sees you on the street when she’s with her boyfriend, she’s going to glare at you even though he looks like a foot and is chronically unemployed. In her mind, you want him. And that’s all that matters.

She’s an English teacher, but she really doesn’t care about her job. Has an annoying social media presence with titles like “My KOREAN BOYFRIEND tries NEW YORK PIZZA for the FIRST TIME!!”

She posts on the FB groups about how her boyfriend won’t introduce her to his family. People try to tell her that, culturally, people in Korea don’t introduce partners unless they’re engaged and about to get married. She doesn’t get it.

The Loser Back Home

This person is usually a white man who for some reason could not cash into his white male privilege in his country of origin, so he came to Korea expecting Korean women to throw coochie at him simply because he’s white. The LBH fetishizes Korean women, and loathes non-Korean woman. He’s also insufferable.

Also an English teacher, not good at his job. Has lived in Korea for 10+ years and speaks little to no Korean. Sometimes has a Korean wife that you pray divorces him eventually. He usually relies on her to do everything because he refuses to learn Korean.

The “Why are You Still Here?”

This person has also lived in Korea for 10+ years and they HATE the country. They don’t like the food, the people, their jobs, the culture, everything. Chronically miserable.

You ask them why they’re still here, and they never have a straight answer. It’s implicitly understood that they’ve been living in Korea for most of their adult life, and don’t know what they’d do if they left. If they do leave, they’re going to a nearby country (probably Japan or China) to start the process all over again.

The College Student

This person is studying abroad for a semester. Commonly seen in Hongdae clubs. They’re 19 and they can drink legally in Korea and it’s about to be everyone’s problem!

This group has overlap with the Koreaboo.

The Military Man

This person is a man in the US military. He’s either looking to get married to someone after knowing them for 5 business days, or is cheating on their wife with whom they share 3 children (with one on the way!) Swears he gets tested regularly, but will give you an STI. If he’s been in Korea for years, he probably ended up on The Black Book fb group to warn women to not interact with him. (TBB got shut down because other women started leaking the information to the men listed in it, and they threatened to sue the moderators. RIP TBB you saved many a life.)

This person is reviled by everyone in the country, expats included, because he is a menace. He and his friends terrorize the innocent citizens of whatever poor city their base is closest to. Avoid at all costs.

The Traveler

This person hasn’t lived in their country of origin for years, and has mostly been jumping from country to country for adventure! They live in Korea because 1. It’s a nice place to live., 2. Relatively low cost of living, and 3. Close to other countries. A holiday is coming up? They’re going to Thailand. They got vacation days? They’re spending it in Vietnam.

Either very chill and interesting, or insufferable.

And finally; The Running Away from Something. (That’s me!!)

This person is living in Korea because for some reason they do not want to be in their country of origin.

Shitty family? It’s hard to keep in contact with a 12 hour time difference. Don’t know what they’re gonna do with their life? English teaching in Korea is a good gap year job to let you save and figure your shit out. Mentally ill? Oh you stupid bitch. Go make that appointment at the Itaewon International Clinic. DO IT NOW.

Is either staying 1-2 years, or ends up living there forever. No in between.