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To: Alouette
You are just as bad as the yechi's.

Do you you mean Germans, pretentious Mitnigadim (, or assimilated Reformed Jews?
Sorry, but this Galizianer is a little confused.

Translation for all the gentiles or even Jews with no exposure to Yiddish. "Yekke/Yechi" is the term for a German Jew. "Galizianer/Galitsiener" is the term for someone from Galicia, a region of what is now Poland and Western Ukraine. However, there are also secondary meanings. German Jews thought themselves cosmopolitan and above the country bumpkins from the east.

23 posted on 02/15/2007 6:50:45 PM PST by rmlew (It's WW4 and the Left wants to negotiate with Islamists who want to kill us , for their mutual ends)
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To: rmlew

No, what I meant by the "yechis" are the confused Lubavitchers who shout "Yechi adonainu morenu v'rabbenu" as though the Rebbe OB"M is still alive.

They are by no means the majority of the Chabad leadership and the shluchim. They are annoying, but they are not overwhelming the movement.

A German Jew is referred affectionatly as a "Yekke."


26 posted on 02/15/2007 7:36:52 PM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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