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Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States.
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States.

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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Actor Sammy Davis, Jr. among the crowd.]
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Actor Sammy Davis, Jr. among the crowd.]
National Archives

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Singer Eddie Cantor (center) sits next to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at a dinner of the Massachusetts Committee of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in Boston, MA, May 25, 1950. Also seated (left to right): Frank Leahy and Paul Devers.
Singer Eddie Cantor (center) sits next to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at a dinner of the Massachusetts Committee of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in Boston, MA, May 25, 1950. Also seated (left to right): Frank Leahy and Paul Devers.

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Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office, evidently receiving a Menorah as a gift from the Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion (center), and Abba Eban, the Ambassador of Israel to the United States. 05/08/1951
Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office
National Archives on Flickr

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Leonard Bernstein, half-length portrait, facing right, seated at piano, making annotations to musical score
Leonard Bernstein
Library of Congress

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Golda Meir
Golda Meir
Library of Congress

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[Albert Einstein, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [c1945]. (Library of Congress)
Albert Einstein
Library of Congress

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Der Idisher froyen zshurnal (The Jewish Woman's Home Journal), New York, August 1922
Der Idisher froyen zshurnal
Library of Congress

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Leo Rosenberg and M. Rubinstein, Leben Zol Amerika (Long live America). (New York, n.d.). Featured on the title page of the sheet music of Leben Zol Amerika are the three favored icons of the American Jewish immigrant sensibility: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and the Statue of Liberty
Leo Rosenberg and M. Rubinstein
Library of Congress

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L. Gilrod and D. Meyrowitz, A Boychik Up-to-Date (An up-to-date dandy)
L. Gilrod and D. Meyrowitz
Library of Congress

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Cecilia Razovsky. Vos yede froy darf visen vegen birgershaft... What Every Woman Should Know about Citizenship. Yiddish and English. New York, 1926. 
                      Included in “Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912-2012”.
Cecilia Razovsky
Library of Congress

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(Constitution of the United States). Hebrew and Yiddish. [New York, 1891]
(Constitution of the United States)
Library of Congress

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Talmud Berakhot [The Survivors Talmud, Vol. 1]. Munich-Heidelberg: United States Army, 1948
Talmud Berakhot
Library of Congress

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Hebrew Prayers for Roosevelt and Churchill, ca. 1942. Plaque with hand-drawn flags with manuscript prayers. Included in “From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America”, Library of Congress.
Hebrew Prayers for Roosevelt and Churchill
Library of Congress

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Thalia Theatre Talya teh'ater : glants falle ereffnung mit ayn riesen ensambel fon ershte klasse kinstler und kilnstlerinen
Thalia Theatre Talya teh'ater
Library of Congress

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