Kashket

A Kashket (Polish: Kaszkiet; also known as a kashkettel or kasket) is a cap,

usually made of felt, worn mainly by Hasidic Jewish children as an alternative to the
kippah. It has a crown, a band and peak. From the beginning of the 20th century
until the Second World War, many Russian Jews and Polish Jews wore this cap as
part of their everyday dress.

Contents
Origins
In popular culture
See also
References

Origins Two Jewish children wearing

kashkets
Caps of this type were introduced during the early 19th century, as cheap and
practical workwear for sailors and factory workers in Europe. These became popular
among the urban Russian Jewish community in response to the sarist
T authorities banning more traditional Jewish headwear.[1]

By the mid-19th century, the earlier workman's cap had evolved into the kasket recognisable today, with a narrow crown and a band
embroidered with foliage similar to that on a military Kepi. Around this time it gained the alternative name of Hamburg cap due to
the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants using the Northern German ports as a stopping point on the route to America. This
hat was worn daily by Hasidic Jewish boys in Britain, Germany, Russia, Poland, and America from the Victorian era until the mid
20th century, but in the present day it is generally restricted toShabbat and other formal occasions.

In popular culture
In the animated film An American Tail, the main character Fievel's trademark hat, given to him by his father
, is a blue kasket.

Kashkets were worn byZero Mostel and Topol[2] as Tevye the Milkman in the stage and film adaptations of Fiddler on the Roof.[3]

See also
Combination cap
Skipper cap

References
1. Alon, Mati (2003). Holocaust and Redemption(https://books.google.com/books?id=u1i0dz6p9O4C&pg=P
A135).
Trafford Publishing. p. 135.ISBN 978-1-4120-0358-2.
2. Tevye the Milkman (https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0016988/?ref_=tt_cl_t1)
3. Fiddler on the Roof (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067093/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

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