First-Person Stories of Jewish Vietnam War Veterans

The new CD-ROM, “Jewish Americans in Military Service during Vietnam,” produced by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States’ National Vietnam Veterans Committee, begins with these words:

“Americans of the Jewish faith have fought and have died in the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1975 as they have in every armed conflict in which the United States has been a participant.” What follows are the stories of 88 Jewish Vietnam War veterans, nearly all told in their own voices, and nearly all containing wartime and present-day photos.

The veterans include two Medal of Honor recipients, Retired Army Col. Jack Jacobs and the late USAF Sgt. John Levitow, along with a half dozen Vietnam Veterans of America members, including VVA Veteran Arts Editor and Senior Writer Marc Leepson.

JWV is donating all proceeds of the sale of the CD-ROM—which was edited by Jerry Alperstein and Robert Jacobs, who chairs the organization’s Vietnam Veterans Committee—to the National Museum of American Jewish Military History. For more info, go to this page on the museum’s website: It’s also available on amazon.com

–October 19, 2021

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