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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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Jonas Salk

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

Sandy Koufax

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

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

Synagogue

Kirk Douglas

Dinah Shore

Richard Feynman

Mark Rothko

Leonard Bernstein

ISADORE GOLDBERG / April, 1, 1948

Tune In Groucho

Sid Caesar

Friday Evening

Jacket worn by Sid Caesar as German Professor on Your Show of Shows

Shari Lewis

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