Religious or cultural clothing and styles that can cause a person to become visibly Jewish include yarmulkes, sheitels, tichels, shtreimels, kashkets, gartels, kittels, tallit, tzitzit, tefillin, and payot.
[5] Physical features commonly stereotyped as Jewish may include body shape, height, facial features, dark hair or curly hair, and dark eye color, as well as nose size and shape.
At times, some Jews have altered their features to more closely resemble non-Jewish people, such as by dying or straightening their hair.
[9] The UJA-Federation of New York has written that "Visibly Jewish individuals are attacked in Brooklyn with alarming frequency".
[11] Due to the systematic destruction of Polish-Jewish society during the Holocaust, many people of Jewish descent in Poland hid their heritage.
[12] In 2021, the German-Jewish writer Levi Israel Ufferfilge published Nicht ohne meine Kippa!
[13] In 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo condemned a series of antisemitic attacks against "visibly Jewish New Yorkers".