ד-פּאַקס<p>"Ever flipped through your <a href="https://babka.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> book and wondered “Why are all the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> wearing these funny <a href="https://babka.social/tags/hats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hats</span></a>?”</p><p>You find it all over <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> from stained glass windows to manuscripts, the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Judenhat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Judenhat</span></a> (“<a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/hat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hat</span></a>”) can be traced back to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>.</p><p>You can even find it in the Bird’s Head Haggadah and some other Jewish books of the time! Originally a marker of eastern learning, antiquity and authority, and even fashionable with 12th century aristocracy, things took a dark turn as Jews were depicted wearing the hat while killing <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a>. Paired with a “Jewish nose”, the hat can even sometimes still be seen in <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Antisemitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antisemitic</span></a> depictions of Jews today."</p><p><a href="https://unpacked.media/the-weird-jewish-hats-of-medieval-art-antisemitic-trope-or-fashion-statement/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unpacked.media/the-weird-jewis</span><span class="invisible">h-hats-of-medieval-art-antisemitic-trope-or-fashion-statement/</span></a></p>