on december 1, 2012, swartzberg embarked upon his experiment of wearing a kippah outside of his home and of the jewish community. his objectives are to counter antisemitism and to ascertain how germany's society really feels about jews. disproving predictions to the contrary, all of his experiences have been positive. his "civil courage" led to one of his kippot being selected for inclusion in the collection of the museum of the history of the federal republic of germany in bonn.