Yiddishkeit Code

a.k.a. Hebrew Geek Code, HGC

Author: Robert D. Kaiser

Date: (Cited in initial release of Catholic Geek Code)

Tags: #religion

Specification (9/15/99)
soc.culture.jewish
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Decoder (8/22/96)
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The Hebrew Geek Code / Yiddishkeit Code is intended for Jewish people to describe their lives and faith.

Though the code debuted as the “Hebrew Geek Code” or “HGC”, a post in 1996 discusses the need to rename the code:

By the way, I’m looking for a NEW NAME for this. The term ‘Geek Code’ is copyrighted, and the present name could be construed as a copyright infringement. So if anyone has a suggestion, please e-mail me!

The code was posted with a new name in August 1996; Yiddishkeit translates roughly to “Jewishness”.

It is presumed that the Yiddishkeit code is not to be distinguished from the Hebrew Geek Code; however, the list At least 80 signature codes lists them both separately.

It is a little hard to tell what the “latest” or “main” version of Yiddishkeit Code is; the version labeled “9/15/99” has the latest label, but the author reposted the version labeled “10/7/97” well through the 2010s. The blog post from merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com is dated 4/14/2019 but it is unclear whether version has the same author or corresponds to another dated version.

Example

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Details

Inspired (3):

Found on:

Linked from:

Added to sig.codes:

2025-02-15

Known versions

Hebrew Geek Code 1.0 ():

Hebrew Geek Code 2.1 ():

Hebrew 'Geek Code' 2.5 ():

Yiddishkeit Code 8/22/96 ():

Yiddishkeit Code 9/25/96 ():

Yiddishkeit Code 9/30/96 ():

Yiddishkeit Code 10/7/97 ():

Yiddishkeit Code 12/5/97 ():

Yiddishkeit Code 5/8/98:

Yiddishkeit Code 9/15/99 ():

Yiddishkeit Code:

Timeline

Details

Hebrew Geek Code 1.0

Catholic Geek Code 0.1 (inspired)

Catholic Geek Code 0.2 (inspired)

Hebrew Geek Code 2.1

Hebrew 'Geek Code' 2.5

Yiddishkeit Code 8/22/96

Yiddishkeit Code 9/25/96

Yiddishkeit Code 9/30/96

Hamster Code 1.0 (inspired)

Hamster Code 1.2 (inspired)

Hamster Code 1.3 (inspired)

Yiddishkeit Code 10/7/97

Yiddishkeit Code 12/5/97

Yiddishkeit Code 5/8/98

Yiddishkeit Code 9/15/99

Asatru Geek Code 0.5 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 0.9 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.0 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.1 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.2 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.3 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.4 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.5 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.6 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.7 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.7.1 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.7.2 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.8 (inspired)

Asatru Geek Code 1.8.1 (inspired)

Yiddishkeit Code