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During the summer vacation season,
Jewish sites abound for every age and interest.

1 LINDA R. BENSON
Special to the Jewish News

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ews have left powerful
footprints across the land-
scape of the United States.
Jews lived in the early
colonies and fought the Indians;
I Jews traveled en masse in
cramped quarters on passenger
steam ships, to marvel at the
Statue of Liberty and "be
processed" on Ellis Island; Jews
lived in elegant Federal-style
mansions and trekked across the
Rockies to set up synagogues and
cemeteries in mining camps and
"boom" towns.
There is an American-Jewish
experience that mirrors the
American experience, with its own
unique variations. Now, for sum-
mertime travelers who want to see
the U.S.A. the Jewish way, the
Jewish News has made a special list.
Good navigators learn how to
follow the stars. Ours is a six-
pointed one: a total of 30 recom-
mendations across six regions
throughout America that show the

The Spertus Museum, Chicago

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Clockwise from top left:
`Albert Einstein, "from Andy
Warhol's "Ten Portraits of
Jews of the Twentieth
Century" exhibit at Spertus
Museum, Chicago

"Ozet Lottery No. 3" from the "Stalin's Forgotten Zion"
exhibit at Spertus Museum, Chicago

"Franz Kafka," from Andy Warhol "Ten Portraits of Jews of
the Twentieth Century" exhibit at Spertus Museum, Chicago

An image from Birobidzhan, from the "Stalin's Forgotten
Zion" exhibit at the Spertus Museum, Chicago

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