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INDEX
Time Period
1968-1977
1978-1987
1988-1993
1994-1998
1999-2008
2009
2010-2011
2012
2013-2014
2015-2016
2017
2018-2019
2020-2023
Major Accomplishments
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Jewish-American
Hall of Fame Chronology
2018:The Mel Wacks Judaica Art Medal Award was presented to Otakar Dušek at FIDEM (Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d'Art) conference in Ottawa on June 2. Otakar’s medal tells the story of how a concentration camp for women, located near the German municipality of Helmbrechts, was hastily evacuated on April 13, 1945, as US troops were approaching. Almost 1,200 pitiful women prisoners from this camp were thus force-marched towards Germany-occupied Czechoslovakia in a Death March (Todesmarsch). Read more here.
2018: On July 15th, Hedy Lamarr was inducted into the Jewish-American Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the American Jewish University, attended by over 200 people. Her son, Anthony Loder, received the Hedy Lamarr medal and talked about his mother.
Photos of Anthony Loder by Jan Burns, courtesy of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles.
2019 From March 21 – July 25, the Cincinnati Skirball Museum presented an exhibit “Striking Medals – 50 Years of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame. To take a virtual tour of the exhibit Click here.
Take a 3-D virtual tour of “Striking Medals” by clicking here.
2019 December 10, the Virginia Holocaust Museum Annual Meeting Celebrated 50 Years of the Jewish American Hall of Fame. Rabbi Scott Nagel spoke about Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise and the Establishment of Reform Judaism in America.
2019 On July 16, the JAHF received an email from Charles L. stating “I purchased a JAHF plaque on eBay. This one is a bronze Judah Magnes plaque, about 9" x 8-1/2", with a mounting screw on the back. Overall it is in nice condition.” The plaque turned out to be the original model for the Jewish-American Hall of Fame’s first medal, made in 1969 to honor Judah L. Magnes. It was a miracle that it was discovered after missing for nearly 50 years! Charles kindly returned the model to the Jewish-American Hall of Fame archives. You can read the full story by clicking here.
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