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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

Maurice Sendak

Albert Einstein

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen

Jonas Salk

Rob Reiner

Neil Simon

Elie Wiesel

Helena Rubinstein

Arthur Miller

Green Hose, Robert Pinsky

Lillian Hellman

Betty Friedan

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Dinah Shore

Louis Brandeis

Lauren Bacall

Tony Kushner

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Larry King

Saul Bellow

Eddie Cantor

Gertrude Stein

Edna Ferber

Printing plate of Fannie Cook

Isaac Asimov

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