Jewish Biographies: Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States and recognizes individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. The Medal of Freedom has been awarded to hundreds of individuals over the decades. At least 37 of them have been Jewish.
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Architecture |
Music |
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2016 |
Rudolf Serkin |
1963 |
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1964 |
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Dance |
Eugene Ormandy |
1970 |
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Lincoln Kirstein |
1984 |
Arthur Rubinstein |
1976 |
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1977 |
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Movies and Theater |
Arthur Fiedler |
1977 |
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1971 |
1980 |
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1981 |
Vladimir Horowitz |
1986 |
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1987 |
1992 |
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Lew Wasserman |
1995 |
2012 |
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2015 |
2015 |
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| Itzhak Perlman | 2015 |
2015 |
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Literature |
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1992 |
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Business and Economics |
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History |
David Dubinsky |
1969 |
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Ariel Durant |
1977 |
Walter Annenberg |
1986 |
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1988 |
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Humanitarian |
1999 |
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2011 |
2004 |
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2005 |
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Computing |
2007 |
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Robert Kahn |
2005 |
2013 |
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2014 |
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Education |
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1980 |
Supreme Court Justices |
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Hanna Holborn Gray |
1991 |
1963 |
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1978 |
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Attorneys and Judges |
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1987 |
Journalism |
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Laurence Silberman |
2008 |
Walter Lippmann |
1964 |
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Newton N. Minow |
2016 |
Arthur Krock |
1970 |
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1994 |
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Television |
A. M. Rosenthal |
2002 |
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2016 |
William Safire |
2006 |
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Medicine |
Military |
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1977 |
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt |
1998 |
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1986 |
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Arnall Patz |
2004 |
Philanthropy |
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Zachary Fisher |
1998 |
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Philosophy |
Nancy Brinker |
2009 |
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Sidney Hook |
1985 |
2018 |
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Activism |
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| Nathan Perlmutter | Diplomacy | ||
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Arnold Aronson |
1998 |
Robert S. Strauss |
1981 |
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2006 |
Sol M. Linowitz |
1998 |
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Andrew Goodman |
2014 |
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Michael Schwerner |
2014 |
Foreign Statesmen |
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2009 |
2012 |
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U.S. Cabinet Members |
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1977 |
Members of the U.S. Congress |
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1981 |
1963 |
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1983 |
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Other Political Figures |
2008 |
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Walt Rostow |
1969 |
2014 |
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Albert Shanker |
1998 |
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Max Kampelman |
1999 |
Science |
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2000 |
2003 |
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Irving Kristol |
2002 |
2006 |
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Norman Podhoretz |
2004 |
Mildred Dresselhaus |
2014 |
Sources: White House, Tablet Magazine (October 2, 2013), Wikipedia.
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