Kolpik

In Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, a kolpik is a type of traditional headgear worn in families of some Chassidic rebbes (Hasidic rabbis) of Galician or Hungarian dynastic descent, by their unmarried children on the Sabbath (Shabbat), and by some rebbes on some special occasions other than Shabbat or major holidays.[1] The kolpik is made from brown fur,[2] as opposed to a spodik, worn by Polish chassidic dynasties, which is fashioned out of black fur.[3] The shtreimel, another similar type of fur hat worn by Hasidim, are shorter in height, wider, and disc-shaped, while kolpiks are taller, thinner in bulk, and of cylindrical shape.[3]

The third Belzer Rebbe, Yissachar Dov Rokeach, wearing a "kolpik"
Rabbi Shimon Sofer wearing a "kolpik"

It is seen as an intermediate level garment between Shabbat and weekday dress.[2]

The days that some rebbes don a kolpik include:


The word originated from a Turkic word for this kind of hat, kalpak, (also spelled calpac).

Joseph Margoshes (1866–1955)[4] in his memoir A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia writes regarding Rabbi Shimon Sofer's election to the Imperial Council of Austria:

The election of the Krakow Rabbi to the Austrian Reichstag made a tremendous impression on the entire Jewish world, ... It gave them enormous pleasure to see even a single Rabbi achieve the major honour of sitting among so many great personages, clad in a fine calpac amid such esteemed gentlemen. The poor things did not know that the calpac was part of historic Polish dress, and that many Poles, especially extreme nationalists, would wear these same calpacs at their meetings.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Shtreimel Variations". Segula The Jewish History Magazine. Retrieved 2019-12-15.
  2. Rosenberg, Shimon (November 2013). "The Rebbe & President Clinton". Zman. 5 (47): 141.
  3. Shurpin, Yehuda. "Why Do Many Chassidim Wear Shtreimels (Fur Hats)?". Chabad.org. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  4. A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia at Google Books
  5. Margoshes, Joseph (2008). "7". A World Apart: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Nineteenth Century Galicia. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-934843-10-9. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
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