Definition of "yekke" []

• A Jew originating from Germany currently living in Israel. (noun)

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• "Despite a residue of yekke-type "non-Zionism", some of the most robust and splendidly outspoken defenders of Medinat Israel are members of non-Orthodox congregations."
• "For Herzl was not the legendary giant of the popular imagination, nor the staid yekke"
• "He has a foundation and a record in the deepest, most boring yekke sense."