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

Synagogue

Solomon Faiman reading Yiddish newspaper in doorway of shop on Lombard Street

Albert Hoffman reading daily prayers at B'Nai Israel Shul, Lloyd Street

Kiddush Cup

Rabbi Wise, N.Y.

Mrs. Edgar Bloom Stern (Edith Rosenwald)

Rabbi Newman, San Francisco

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