Jewish American Heritage Month

Posted By richards on December 15, 2013

May is Jewish American Heritage Month

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Jewish Americans who have helped form the fabric of American history, culture and society. Read more

This exhibit illustrates Americas hospitality to cultures as well as to people, a welcome that is reflected in the rich collections of the Library of Congress. The Hebraic Section houses close to 200,000 works in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, and Amharic. View the online exhibition

The Lower East Side Tenement Museums new exhibit, Shop Life, invites visitors to explore commerce in lower Manhattan through the history of a single building. The exhibit chronicles the different uses of a commercial space located at 97 Orchard Street from 1863 to 1988. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. More information about the exhibition (external link)

A new set containing photos and documents from the National Archives that relate to Jewish American Heritage Month on the Flickr photo sharing site.

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Fighting Nazi Germany took on special significance for one group of U.S. servicemen in the European Theater. Even those Jewish soldiers and sailors who were serving elsewhere in World War II understood that defeating the Axis would be a defeat for blind hatred of any ethnic group or nationality.

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Jewish American Heritage Month 2013

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