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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

Jewish-American Hall of Fame Chronology


2021: On November 14th, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, the creators of Superman, were inducted into the Jewish-American Hall of Fame via a zoom ceremony, cosponsored by the Combat Antisemitism Movement. Speakers included Elan Carr, Former US Special Envoy to Monitor Combat Antisemitism; Don Boozer, manager of the literature department at the Cleveland Public Library, which houses the largest collection of Superman memorabilia; Laura Siegel Larson, daughter of Jerry Siegel’s daughter; and others.

2022: On November 13th, photojournalist and author Ruth Gruber, who saved almost 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust, was inducted into the Jewish-American Hall of Fame in a zoom ceremony. Speakers included Judy Rapaport, Vice-President of the The Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum; Leslie Fried, Curator of the Alaska Jewish Museum; Gruber’s children Dr. David Michaels and Celia Michaels-Evans; and others.



2023:A dedicated space in the lobby of Mayerson Hall at the Cincinnati Skirball Museum of Hebrew Union College features changing exhibitions of selected medals from the collection. Currently on view is a tribute to the 2022 Jewish American Hall of Fame honoree, Ruth Gruber, including sketches, photographs, plaster model, and the finished medal.


2024:On November 17, Mel Wacks gave a zoom presentation “New Yorkers in the Jewish-American Hall of Fame, from Asser Levy to Barbra Streisand,” to the Israel Center of Conservative Judaism.