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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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Sabbath Bread Cover

Torah Ark

Shofar

Torah Mantle

Tevye's Cap from Fiddler on the Roof

Pewter Passover Seder Ceremony Plate

Statue of Liberty Hanukkah Lamp, 1986

Prayer Book Bag

Baseball Glove, used by Sandy Koufax

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

Young Men in Prayer

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

Learned Men with Torah Scrolls

Purim Gazette Metropolitan Opera House

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

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

Jewish Bible

All About Jewish Holidays and Customs

Photograph of Hasidic Jewish man

Photograph of Jewish neighborhood street in New York

Seder Plate

Children Studying

ISADORE GOLDBERG / April, 1, 1948

“The Troubles of the Reuben and the Maid”

Free Them Now

Albert Hoffman reading daily prayers at B'Nai Israel Shul, Lloyd Street

Digital image of protesters with placards

Shofar from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

"Chantshe in America"

March Proudly

Purim Charity Collection Plaque

Jewish Prayer Book

Meredith Fineman's Bat Mitzvah

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