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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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Jacob Heymann's Butcher Shop Window

I Cospiratori

Young Men in Prayer

Learned Men with Torah Scrolls

Helena Rubinstein

Kosher for Passover [black & white advertisement; tear sheet]

Lillian Hellman

Elizabeth Taylor

Children Studying

Jewish Bookseller

Tune In Groucho

Marx Brothers

Printing plate of Fannie Cook

Friday Evening

Mrs. Edgar Bloom Stern (Edith Rosenwald)

Jewish Prayer Book

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