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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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Sid Caesar

Knifemaker's Shop Sign

Rube Goldberg

Eddie Cantor

So Far Away; Smackwater Jack

Woman and Child celebrating Chanukah

Farmer at the Hightstown homestead project

Yehudi Menuhin

Gertrude Stein

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

Flory Jagoda Trio - Sephardic Music

Edna Ferber

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

Shari Lewis

Julius Rosenwald's Pocket Watch

Ed Wynn

Rabbi Wise, N.Y.

Mrs. Edgar Bloom Stern (Edith Rosenwald)

Isaac Asimov

Rabbi Newman, San Francisco

Purim Charity Collection Plaque

Arthur Joseph Goldberg

Molly Picon

Jewish Prayer Book

Sandy Koufax


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