Tag #151772 - Interview #84041 (Yacob Hollander)

My parents were religious and observed Jewish traditions. My father had a big beard and payes. On weekdays my father wore a black suit and had a long black jacket for the synagogue. My father always covered his head. He wore a kippah at home and in the store and a hat to go out. My mother wore a wig to go to the synagogue on Sabbath and Jewish holidays, to brit milah celebrations or weddings. Women didn’t wear wigs at home. My mother wore a kerchief at home. Girls had their hair cut before going under the chuppah. Married women didn’t wear their hair long. Many of them like my mother ordered wigs to be made from their own hair. My mother’s sisters and her brothers’ wives wore wigs.