What is in a busby, what is in a top-hat: tall hats, and the politics of Jewish identity and social positioning

This is an article about costume: top-hats and tall hats as an indicator of Jewish integrated identity. On the one hand the article concerns a busby as the iconic social signal of integration into the military. On the other Jewish integration in New York and London was beginning to take place at a time when the top-hat was an iconic social signal of prominence in civil society