Eastern Europe
Marcus Jastrow
Another Polish rabbi, here shown wearing a fancy "wheel cap" style head covering. On the wiki article is another photograph of him from much later, in which his head is uncovered.
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Adolf Jellinek
A Kabbalist, he did not wear a kippah. Here we see the trend of "new" branches of Judaism not wearing kippot, a trend that would continue with the early Reform movement.
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Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
Rav Berlin wore a small, modern-style black velvet kippah, unlike his contemporaries in Hungary.
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Samuel Benjamin Sofer
Became a leading rabbi in Hungary. He was a contemporary of Rav Low, but unlike Low, Rav Sofer wore a large Russian-style fur hat.
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Leopold Löw
Rav Low isn't wearing a kippah either.
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Malbim
Surprisingly, Rav Malbin doesn't seem to wear a head covering either, even though he seems to be considered an Orthodox Rabbi.
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Zvi Hirsch Chajes
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Shlomo Ganzfried
Oddly, Rav Ganzfried doesn't appear to be wearing any kind of head covering, in spite of being an Orthodox rabbi and the author of the Kitzure Shulchan Aruch.
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Dow Ber Meisels
Another large Russian fur hat, reminds me of the Russian Orthodox. Probably not a coincidence.
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Nahum Trebitsch
Rav. Trebitsch wore a tall and large round hat, similar to what was worn in Moscow and also Constantinople. This seems much more typical for Eastern Europe in the late 18th / early 19th Centuries.
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