| Exhibition Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Exhibition Reviews

"The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish-American Dream." Organized by the Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd St., Baltimore, MD 21202.

Temporary exhibition, July 2006–April 8, 2007. 2,000 sq. ft. Melissa Martens, curator and project director; Exhibition Art and Technology, exhibition design; Emily Wilson, graphic designer; Final Push, exhibition fabricator; Vastu Media, media production; Deborah Dash Moore, Phil Brown, Judith Endelman, Jenna Joselit, and Rebecca Kobrin, scholar advisors.

Traveling exhibition, Feb. 5–June 4, 2006, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL. June 14, 2007–Dec. 31, 2007, Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Pl., New York, NY 10280. Su–Tu 10–5:45, W 10–8, F 10–5 (daylight savings time), F 10–3 (eastern standard time and the eve of Jewish holidays). Adults $10, seniors $7, students $5, children 12 and under free.

The Other Promised Land: Vacationing, Identity, and the Jewish American Dream. Edited by Avi Y. Decter and Melissa Martens. (Baltimore: Jewish Museum of Maryland, 2005. 112 pp. $18.00, ISBN 978-1-883312-06-0.)

Internet: brief description of the exhibition, http://www.jhsm.org/html/exhibits_main.html .

The topic of vacations may initially seem like an unlikely subject for a major traveling exhibition, yet "The Other Promised Land" presents an engaging, thought-provoking—and fun—investigation of summer life in the sun. Though we learn that Jewish vacations had their distinctive traditions, this exhibition has a much broader message about the development of "free time" in America that addresses the non-Jewish experience as well.

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