# Kashket

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{{Short description|Cap worn mainly by Hasidic Jewish children}}
thumb|right|Two Jewish children wearing kashkets
A '''kashket''' ({{langx|yi|קאַשקעט}}, {{etymology|pl|kaszkiet||uk|кашкет}}; {{etymology|fr|casquette|cap}}; also known as a '''kashkettel''' or '''kasket''') is a [cap](/source/cap), usually made of felt, worn mainly by [Hasidic Jewish](/source/Hasidic_Jewish) children as an alternative to the [kippah](/source/kippah). It has a crown, a band and peak. From the beginning of the 20th century until [World War II](/source/World_War_II), many [Russian Jew](/source/Russian_Jew)s and [Polish Jew](/source/Polish_Jew)s wore this cap as part of their everyday dress.

==Origins==
Caps of this type were introduced during the early 19th century, as cheap and practical [workwear](/source/workwear) for sailors and factory workers in Europe. These became popular among the urban Russian Jewish community in response to the Tsarist authorities banning more traditional Jewish headwear.<ref name="Alon2003">{{cite book|last=Alon|first=Mati|title=Holocaust and Redemption|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u1i0dz6p9O4C&pg=PA135|year=2003|publisher=Trafford Publishing|isbn=978-1-4120-0358-2|page=135}}</ref>{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}}

By the mid-19th century, the earlier workman's cap had evolved into the kashket recognisable today, with a narrow crown and a band embroidered with foliage similar to that on a military [kepi](/source/kepi). Around this time, it gained the alternative name of [Hamburg cap](/source/Hamburg_cap) due to the large number of Russian Jewish immigrants using the Northern German [port](/source/port)s as a stopping point on the route to America. This hat was worn daily by [Hasidic Jewish](/source/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 to [Shabbat](/source/Shabbat) and other formal occasions.{{citation needed|date=July 2017}}

==In popular culture==
In the animated film ''[An American Tail](/source/An_American_Tail)'', the main character's (Fievel) trademark hat, a blue kashket, is given to him by his father.

Kashkets were worn by [Zero Mostel](/source/Zero_Mostel) and [Topol](/source/Chaim_Topol)<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/character/ch0016988/?ref_=tt_cl_t1 Tevye the Milkman]</ref> as [Tevye the Milkman](/source/Tevye) in the stage and [film adaptation](/source/Fiddler_on_the_Roof_(film))s of ''[Fiddler on the Roof](/source/Fiddler_on_the_Roof)''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067093/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Fiddler on the Roof]</ref>

American-Jewish rapper [BLP Kosher](/source/BLP_Kosher) famously wears a customized kashket,[https://www.xxlmag.com/blp-kosher-interview-new/] altered to accommodate his wick-style [peyos](/source/peyos).

==See also==
* [Scott Kashket](/source/Scott_Kashket) (born 1996), England, striker for [Wycombe Wanderers](/source/Wycombe_Wanderers)
* [Mariner's cap](/source/Mariner's_cap)
* [Peaked cap](/source/Peaked_cap)
* [List of hat styles](/source/List_of_hat_styles)

==References==
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Category:20th-century fashion
Category:Caps
Category:Hasidic clothing
Category:Jewish religious clothing

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