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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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Ira Gershwin

The Brothers Nazaroff - "Ich Flee (I Fly)" [Live Performance Video]

Synagogue

Photograph of Jewish neighborhood street in New York

Henry (Hank) Greenberg

The Brothers Nazaroff - "Ich A Mazeldicker Yid" [Official Music Video]

Jack Benny

Kirk Douglas

Bob Dylan

Medal, Jewish War Veterans Medal of Merit, James H. Doolittle

Neil Diamond

Milton Friedman's Briefcase

Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia building

Richard Avedon Self-Portrait

Li'l Abner

Knoll/ Richard Meier Collection

Vera Rubin Digital Images

Elizabeth Taylor

Button, Jewish War Veteran

Richard Feynman

Seder Plate

Children Studying

Mark Rothko

Jewish National Fund Collection Box

Jewish Bookseller

Jewish Welfare Board postcard

Arthur Kornberg

Pin, Lapel, Jewish Aeronautical Association

Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

Leonard Bernstein

Isidor Isaac Rabi

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”


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