Kolpik
Sign in to savethumb|right|Moshe Leib Rabinovich, the Munkacser rebbe, wearing a kolpik In Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, a kolpik is a type of traditional headgear worn in families of some Chassidic rebbes (Hasidic rabbis) of Galician or Hungarian dynastic descent, by their unmarried children on the Sabbath (Shabbat), and by some rebbes on some special occasions other than Shabbat or major holidays.
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thumb|right|Moshe Leib Rabinovich, the Munkacser rebbe, wearing a kolpik In Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, a kolpik is a type of traditional headgear worn in families of some Chassidic rebbes (Hasidic rabbis) of Galician or Hungarian dynastic descent, by their unmarried children on the Sabbath (Shabbat), and by some rebbes on some special occasions other than Shabbat or major holidays.
The kolpik is made from brown fur, as opposed to a spodik, worn by Polish Chassidic dynasties, which is fashioned out of black fur. A shtreimel, another similar type of fur hat worn by Hasidim, is shorter in height, wider, and disc-shaped, while a kolpik is taller, thinner in bulk, and of cylindrical shape.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kolpik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.