The Jewish hat, also known as the Jewish cap, Judenhut or Latin pileus cornutus, was generally a cone-shaped pointed hat, often white or yellow, worn by Jews in Medieval Europe. Initially worn by choi
The Jewish poet Süßkind von Trimberg (on the right) wearing a Jewish hat (Codex Manesse, fourteenth century)
Circumcision of Isaac, in the Jewish manuscript the "Regensburg Pentateuch", Germany, c. 1300
Figure in a Jewish hat holding a citron (etrog) for the holiday of sukkot in a medieval Hebrew calendar
Christian painting of an Old Testament sacrifice, 1483, with various forms of Jewish hat, as well as turbans and other exotic styles. By this date it is hard to judge how illustrations like these relate to actual contemporary dress in Europe, or are an attempt to recreate historically appropriate ancient dress from styles of the contemporary Middle East.
A shtreimel is a fur hat worn by some Ashkenazi Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. In Jerusalem, the shtreimel is also worn by L
Jewish hat
…Persia, as a similar hat was worn by Babylonian Jews. Modern distinctive or characteristic Jewish forms of male headgear include the kippah (skullcap), shtreimel, spodik, kolpik, and kashkets; see also Hasidic clothing. The shape of the hat is variable. Sometimes, especially in the thirteenth century, it is a…
Portrait of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn in a shtreimel
Portrait of David Moses Friedman of the Chortkov dynasty in the shtreimel of the Ruzhin dynasty