Jewish American Heritage Month

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Jewish American Heritage Month in USA in 2024
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2025 USA Thursday, May 1stJewish American Heritage Month
2024 USA Wednesday, May 1stJewish American Heritage Month
2023 USA Monday, May 1stJewish American Heritage Month
2022 USA Sunday, May 1stJewish American Heritage Month
2021 USA Saturday, May 1stJewish American Heritage Month
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Celebrates the contributions Jewish Americans have made to America since they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654.

May is Jewish American Heritage Month – On April 20, 2006, President George W. Bush proclaimed that May would be Jewish American Heritage Month.

The announcement was the crowning achievement in an effort by the Jewish Museum of Florida and South Florida Jewish community leaders that resulted in resolutions introduced by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania urging the president to proclaim a month that would recognize the more than 350-year history of Jewish contributions to American culture. The resolutions passed unanimously, first in the House of Representatives in December 2005 and later in the Senate in February 2006.

The month of May was chosen due to the highly successful celebration of the 350th Anniversary of American Jewish History in May 2004, which was organized by the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History.

This coalition was composed of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, the American Jewish Historical Society, the Library of Congress and the National Archives and Records Administration.

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