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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

Sabbath Bread Cover

Torah Ark

Shofar

Torah Mantle

37c Irving Berlin single

"God Bless America"

Tevye's Cap from Fiddler on the Roof

Pewter Passover Seder Ceremony Plate

Statue of Liberty Hanukkah Lamp, 1986

Prayer Book Bag

Chicken Market, 55 Hester Street

Levi Strauss & Co.

"The Birth of the Blues" for Levi Strauss

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen

Barbie Lunch Box

20c Touro Synagogue single

Typewriter used by Carl Reiner to write Dick Van Dyke Show scripts

Baseball Glove, used by Sandy Koufax

Sandy Koufax

Jacob Heymann's Butcher Shop Window

I Cospiratori

Hanukkah, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Pupils' Workbook for The First Lesson in Hebrew by Rebekah J. Kohn, 1954

George Gershwin Self-Portrait

The Seder

The Jewish Heritage Series: The Story of The Jewish Way of Life

Jewish Welfare Board, the

Jewish Welfare Board Uniform

Badge, Jewish Chaplain, Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

Fiddler on the Roof

Purim Gazette Metropolitan Opera House

The Book of Psalms (Jewish Version)

No. 683 Jewish Synagogue, Newport, R.I.

Helena Rubinstein


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