Litvaks pronounced their vowels holam as [ ey ] as against Germanic [ au ] and Polish [ oy ] .
Its most characteristic feature is the pronunciation of the vowel holam as ( as against Sephardic [ o ] , Germanic and Polish ) .In the popular preception , Litvaks were considered to be more intellectual and stoic than their rivals , the Galitzianers , who thought of them as cold fish .
Lithuanian Jews