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Isaac Bashevis Singer, who earned a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, will be among the first group chosen for the National Museum of American Jewish History's Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame in Philadelphia. (Corbis-Bettmann) Barbra Streisand will be among the first group chosen for the National Museum of American Jewish History's Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame in Philadelphia. (Corbis-Bettmann) Sandy Koufax, the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodger who would not pitch a World Series game on Yom Kippur, is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown and now will join the National Museum of American Jewish History's Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame in Philadelphia. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library) Golda Meir, the only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel, is among the first group chosen for the National Museum of American Jewish History's Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame in Philadelphia. (Library of Congress) Isaac Lesser, rabbi, author, translater, editor and publisher, is in the first group chosen for the National Museum of American Jewish History's Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame in Philadelphia. (Library of Congress)

Isaac Lesser, rabbi, author, translater, editor and publisher, is in the first group chosen for the National Museum of American Jewish History's Only in America Gallery/Hall of Fame in Philadelphia. (Library of Congress)

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