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Apr 30, 2018 · The “Yekkes” were well educated, highly professional, and had high standards of precision and perfection, inherent awareness to aesthetics, and a tendency to choose liberal professions – all of which was despised by the socialists land workers who formed the ideal prototype of the Zionist movement.
- What's in A Name?
- Documents Packed in Boxes
- Learning About Their Grandparents
- A 'Scandal'
"I'm not naming the museum after a swear word," he told Ofek when she suggested Jeckes Museum as a name some 30 years ago. Though the historical origins of the term are unclear, the connotation was initially negative. The term may have come from German-speaking Jews wearing jackets when they arrived in Israel, despite the hot weather. It could also...
The archive of the Jeckes Museum counts about a million documents. In addition, there are about 500 larger exhibits such as furniture, statues, valuable objects like the death mask of playwright Elsa Lasker-Schüler, but also embroidery and other handicrafts that the "Jeckes" made. These are objects that people were able to take with them from their...
"The first generation didn't communicate, but the second and especially the third generation are interested in their history," Ihrig said. "They come to us at the center, want to learn German and often have documents in their pockets that they want to research." It's a very different German-Jewish story that can be told here, Ihrig said. The Jeckes...
Ihrig is running out of time to realize his project. When all the boxes are packed at the end of March, it has to be clear whether a new "Jeckes Center" in Haifa could survive for at least 10 years before building a permanent research center of this scale. In addition to donors in Israel, Ihrig has also turned to Germany for help with funding. He i...
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Jecke (auch Jekke, anglisierte Schreibweise Yekke, Singular: der Jecke, die Jeckete, Plural: die Jeckes oder Jekkes, Adjektiv: jeckisch) ist eine umgangssprachliche Bezeichnung der jiddischen Sprache vor allem für die deutschsprachigen jüdischen Einwanderer der 1930er-Jahre in Palästina und ihre Nachkommen in der heutigen Bevölkerung Israels.
Nov 29, 2012 · The German-Speaking Jewry Heritage Museum in Tefen, north Galilee, not only has exhibition spaces in which the stories of so-called "Jeckes" - the German-speaking Jews who came to Israel - are...
Nov 29, 2012 · Yekke renewal: a new project ‘Traces’ the remnants of German-Jewish culture. Underwritten by a 250,000 euro grant from the German Foreign Office, a new databank seeks to preserve the last...
Jeckes – Jews of German origin who came to Israel in the thirties or after the Holocaust. This documentary is not what you might expect from a film about Germans and Jews, but an entertaining and moving encounter with gifted and charming storytellers.
Sep 19, 2018 · Abstract. In the 1930s and 1940s, nearly ninety thousand German-speaking Jews found refuge in the British Mandate of Palestine. While scholars have stressed the so-called Yekkes’ intellectual and cultural contribution to the making of the Jewish nation, their social and gendered lifeworlds still need to be explored.
