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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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Maurice Sendak

Chicken Market, 55 Hester Street

Jonas Salk

Rob Reiner

Neil Simon

Ralph Lauren

Jacob Heymann's Butcher Shop Window

Young Men in Prayer

Calvin Klein

Learned Men with Torah Scrolls

Elie Wiesel

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

Beastie Boys, Spring 1985

Milton Glaser

Lillian Hellman

Judy Chicago

Paul Newman

Photograph of Hasidic Jewish man

Arlo Guthrie

Synagogue

Photograph of Jewish neighborhood street in New York

Steven Spielberg

Jack Benny

Kirk Douglas

Bob Dylan

Neil Diamond

Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia building

Stephen Sondheim

Richard Avedon Self-Portrait

Dinah Shore

Elizabeth Taylor

Richard Feynman

Children Studying

Mark Rothko

Arthur Kornberg


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