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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

Tevye's Cap from Fiddler on the Roof

Maurice Sendak

Albert Einstein

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen

Mel Brooks

Jonas Salk

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Jerry Seinfeld

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Helena Rubinstein

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Dinah Shore

Louis Brandeis

Elizabeth Taylor

Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Leonard Bernstein

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Necktie worn by Rodney Dangerfield

Diane Arbus

Tony Kushner

J. D. Salinger

Tune In Groucho

Larry King

Saul Bellow


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