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Selected Images

Portrait of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in court attire.
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States.
Sammy Davis Jr. among the crowd during the Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Actor Sammy Davis, Jr. among the crowd.]

National Archives

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.
Massachusetts Committee of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in Boston, MA, May 25, 1950

National Archives

President Truman in the Oval Office, evidently receiving a Menorah as a gift from the Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion.
Photograph of President Truman in the Oval Office

National Archives on Flickr

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

Library of Congress

Portrait of Golda Meir.
Golda Meir

Library of Congress

Albert Einstein, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.
Albert Einstein

Library of Congress

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

Library of Congress

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

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

Library of Congress

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

(Constitution of the United States). Hebrew and Yiddish. [New York, 1891] Included in “Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912-2012”.
Constitution of the United States

Library of Congress

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

Library of Congress

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

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