11 Facts About Jewish hat

Jewish hat, known as the Jewish cap, Judenhut or Latin pileus cornutus, was a cone-shaped pointed hat, often white or yellow, worn by Jews in Medieval Europe.

Where a distinctive pointed Jewish hat remains it has become much less defined in shape, and baggy.

In Europe, the Jewish hat was worn in France from the eleventh century, and Italy from the twelfth.

Unlike the yellow badge, the Jewish hat is often seen in illustrated Hebrew manuscripts, and was later included by German Jews in their seals and coats of arms, suggesting that at least initially it was regarded by European Jews as "an element of traditional garb, rather than an imposed discrimination".

The Jewish hat is worn in Christian pictures by figures such as Saint Joseph and sometimes Jesus .

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The Jewish hat was mostly found north of the Alps, despite some of the earliest examples being seen in Italy, and was not found in Spain.

Jewish hat is frequently used in medieval art to denote Jews of the Biblical period.

In notable contrast to forms of Jewish badge, the Jewish hat is often seen in Hebrew manuscript illuminations such as Haggadot made in medieval Europe .

However, in Christian art the wearing of the Jewish hat can be sometimes be seen to express an attitude to those wearing it.

The pointed Jewish hat which had formerly been used to depict Jews, now was used for other outcasts.

Naomi Lubrich shows how the pointed Jewish hat was transferred in iconography to criminals, pagans, and other non-Christian outsiders, in particular sorcerers and dwarfs.