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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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Jewish Welfare Board postcard

Pin, Lapel, Jewish Aeronautical Association

Necktie worn by Rodney Dangerfield

ISADORE GOLDBERG / April, 1, 1948

Art Garfunkel

The Smithsonian’s Great Americans Medal| Recipient Paul Simon on “The Sound of Silence”

“The Troubles of the Reuben and the Maid”

Solomon Faiman reading Yiddish newspaper in doorway of shop on Lombard Street

"Fonzie"

certificate, bar mitzvah

Forever Great Film Directors: Billy Wilder single

Free Them Now

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

Digital image of protesters with placards

[Image of immigrants, Statue of Liberty, with Yiddish text]

Shofar from Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation

[In Yiddish ?]

Black dress worn by Rachel Brosnahan in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

"Chantshe in America"

Kiddush Cup

Ralph Rinzler

Knifemaker's Shop Sign

So Far Away; Smackwater Jack

Woman and Child celebrating Chanukah

Farmer at the Hightstown homestead project

[Mother with children, text in Yiddish]. [Print advertising.] Jewish newspapers

Flory Jagoda Trio - Sephardic Music

March Proudly

Henry Winkler Donates his Jacket, NMHT

Our Boys Fought and Won for All the World, the Victory Loan is All for America. Rabbi Wise

Printing plate of Fannie Cook

$1 Bernard Revel single

Friday Evening

Jacket worn by Sid Caesar as German Professor on Your Show of Shows

Julius Rosenwald's Pocket Watch


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