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- Subclass of
- smock
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- Isidor Kaufmann Portrait of a rabbi wearing a kittel and tallith.jpg
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- Jewish kittel
- different from
- smock
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- native label
- קיטל
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right|thumb|220px|A kittel
A kittel ( ) is a white linen or cotton robe worn by some religious Ashkenazi Jews on holidays, in the synagogue or at home when leading the Passover seder. Bridegrooms sometimes wear kittels. It is also customary for Jews to be buried in a kittel, at which time it is referred to as a tachrichim.
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