Jewish-American Hall of Fame

Division of the non-profit American Jewish Historical Society. Produces the Jewish-American Hall of Fame medals. Exhibit at Virginia Holocaust Museum.

The Jewish-American Hall of Fame was founded by Mel Wacks in 1969 at the Magnes Museum, and became a division of the American Jewish Historical Society in 2001. Over a million visitors a year visit their award-winning web site www.amuseum.org where they can take the virtual tour through 500 years of Jewish-American history -- from the Jews who helped Columbus to Barbra Streisand -- illustrated by medals commissioned by the JAHF. They can test their Jewish I.Q. by taking quizzes about the personalities that have been honored by the Jewish-American Hall of Fame -- baseball great Hank Greenberg, violin virtuoso Isaac Stern, composer George Gershwin, Statue of Liberty poet Emma Lazarus, Israel Prime Minister Golda Meir, musical genius Leonard Bernstein, humanitarian Elie Wiesel, and many more.