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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

Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller

Barbra Streisand

Maurice Sendak

Albert Einstein

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Painting Nostalgia: Jewish American Portraits

Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen

Mel Brooks

Jonas Salk

Rob Reiner

Neil Simon

Ralph Lauren

I Cospiratori

Jerry Seinfeld

George Gershwin Self-Portrait

Calvin Klein

Julius Rosenwald

Elie Wiesel

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Helena Rubinstein

Bette Midler

Arthur Miller

Milton Glaser

Green Hose, Robert Pinsky

Lillian Hellman

Marvin Hamlisch

Judy Chicago

Benny Goodman

Paul Newman

Betty Friedan

Arthur Joseph Goldberg

Woody Allen

Steven Spielberg

Jack Benny


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