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On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 10:22 AM Daniel Stuhlman via Hasafran < [email protected]> wrote: > I am a librarian at a Reform congregation. The library has a collection > of kippot from bar/bat mitzvah and wedding celebrations. I don't know the > practice of individuals. In classes some wear a kippah and some don't. I > was hoping to do an historical analysis of styles, but I don't have enough > kippot from before 2000 to make any worthwhile observations. > > In the past couple of weeks we have been cleaning out the building. We > found hundreds of kippot that ba'al simhat just left in the building. I > gave away a few hundred dark colored ones. The others were just pitched. > No one outside of a bat/bar mitzvah event would wear a pink or silver > kippah. I gave a few to men my age at my orthodox shul. I offered some to > a teenager who wore that kind of kippah. He examined them carefully and > then said they're more than 10 years old. That's too old to wear. The > kipport looked new. > > For you question 6 " When was the practice of wearing knitted or > patterned kippot begun in North America? " I am hoping to study this > topic. After Israeli Independence youngsters started wearing blue and > white kippot. Before the late 1960's very few people wore kippot in > public. Observant men would wear a hat in public and put on a kipah when > indoors. In Germany Orthodox men would put on kippot when studying Jewish > texts, but not during general studies. > > I hope that helps. > > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 11:01 PM Lisa Silverman via Hasafran < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi safranim, >> I am co-editor of the AJL children's book reviews and have noticed a >> trend but I need someone who knows more about this to comment, please. >> >> It seems that children's illustrators are putting kippot on most of the >> men and boys in Jewish-themed books, and I assume it is to make them >> acceptable to all denominations. But I find this a rather false narrative >> in many of these books. >> >> For instance, there is a lovely new picture book about Rabbi Joachim >> Prinz and how he was a civil rights activist and spoke at the March on >> Washington, but he is wearing a very visible kippah there at the Lincoln >> Memorial, and photos of him at the time do not reflect that. Here are my >> questions for anyone who can help--- and certainly one person would not >> have to answer all of them-- >> >> >> 1. Would Joachim Prinz be wearing a kippa at any time in public? >> 2. Do any Jews affiliated with the Reform or Progressive movements >> ever wear kippot in public? >> 3. Do Reform Jews wear kippot at all times in the synagogue? Do they >> have kids wear them at Hebrew school? >> 4. Would a book be too confusing to children if some men at, say, a >> sukkot gathering, wear a kippah and some do not? >> 5. Do Orthodox or more observant denominations only buy picture books >> if all the men and boys wear kippot? Or do they not buy picture books >> from >> secular publishers anyway? >> 6. 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