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Jewish American Heritage Month

May is Jewish American Heritage Month. Explore a selection items in the Smithsonian's collections that reflect the Jewish American experience as well as the significant role Jewish Americans and those with Jewish American heritage have played in shaping the nation's history and identity. Learn about six Jewish American artifacts in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History that speak to the long history of Jewish presence first in British North America and then the United States.


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Isaac Mayer Wise

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

37c Irving Berlin single

Barbra Streisand

Maurice Sendak

Albert Einstein

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Levi Strauss & Co.

"The Birth of the Blues" for Levi Strauss

Painting Nostalgia: Jewish American Portraits

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen

Stan Lee: The Beginning

Mel Brooks

20c Touro Synagogue single

Jonas Salk

Rob Reiner

Neil Simon

37c Yip Harburg single

Ralph Lauren

(Native American), from the series You Don't Have to be Jewish to Love Levy's

I Cospiratori

Color picture of Sammy Davis Jr. inscribed to Ginger Smock

Hanukkah, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Jerry Seinfeld

George Gershwin Self-Portrait

Young Men in Prayer

The Seder

Calvin Klein

Learned Men with Torah Scrolls

Badge, Jewish Chaplain, Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

Julius Rosenwald

Elie Wiesel

Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Ralph Bunche, and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Selma and Montgomery March

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

33c Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein single


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