RN12 – ” Fyi, under the “yekkes” umbrella groups from different areas have slightly different minhagim (some wash before kiddush, some dont, there are slight variations in davening etc)and most importantly we are super proud of our heritage! “
True dat! I’m a (mainly…) yekke, and I didn’t recognise a lot of the things that this thread claims yekkes ‘do’. Though I do have a bit of Gerrer blood in me too, and that’s messed up my minhogim a little… But my wife is pure-blood, died-in-the-wool yekkish on all sides and even some of the minhogim that I knew in my family are yekkish she’d never heard of, and visa-versa.
And about the whole wearing a tallis before marriage, I used to love pointing out to people in yeshiva who asked me why I wore one that the mishna berura (hardly a yekke by anyone’s accounting) says that it is a chiyuv gomur. The looks were hysterical…