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Today, we’ll learn about different ways Jews cover their heads and hair, explore the history of the practices, and understand how they connect to Jewish experiences of gender, assimilation, and antisemitism.
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Three styles of hair covering common among married Orthodox Jewish women. From left to right: snood, fall, and hat. According to halacha (Jewish religious law), married Jewish women are expected to cover their hair when in the presence of men other than their husband or close family members.
Feb 10, 2006 · In biblical Judaism, the rule was that married women should cover their hair in order to be modest and unattractive. In more recent times, women wear wigs, which are sometimes more attractive than natural hair. So wearing a wig actually defeats the whole purpose of covering the hair!
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This article focuses on hats worn for the purpose of reverence; modesty hair coverings — scarves, wigs and hats worn mostly by Orthodox women — are discussed here. The origins of Jewish head covering practices are not entirely clear.
Aug 13, 2014 · During the post-Talmudic period, Jewish women generally covered their hair with a cloth or a veil. In the 16th century, coinciding with the appearance of wigs as a fashionable accoutrement at...
The Rebbe on the Jewish Woman's Hair Covering. Blessings from Above and Blessings from Below. By Rivkah Slonim. Art by Sefira Lightstone. In her definitive study of Orthodoxy in America between the years of 1880 and 1945, Jenna Weissman Joselit notes: 1.
Orthodox women do not show their hair in public after their wedding. With a headscarf or a wig – referred to in Yiddish as a sheitel – they signal to their surroundings that they are married and that they comply with traditional notions of propriety.
