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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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Chicken Market, 55 Hester Street

Jacob Heymann's Butcher Shop Window

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

Beastie Boys, Spring 1985

Photograph of Hasidic Jewish man

Arlo Guthrie

Ira Gershwin

Photograph of Jewish neighborhood street in New York

Art Garfunkel

Woman and Child celebrating Chanukah

Ed Wynn

Meredith Fineman's Bat Mitzvah

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