A collaboration of the Jewish Studies Program and Special Collections at Colby College
Jacob Nash ’21 recently completed an important senior thesis in Economics that analyzes census data regarding Jews and members of other ethnic groups who were children in Maine in 1910: “Ethnicity and Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine’s Immigrant Community.”
The latest addition to this website is a co-authored essay by David M. Freidenreich and Kristin Esdale ’16, “With a Little Help from My Friends: Jewish Mutual Assistance in Nineteenth-Century Maine,” published in the pandemic-delayed bicentennial issue of Maine History. Not only does this article describe the ways in which some of Maine’s earliest Jews tried to…
Check out the exhibit on Jewish life in Maine at the Maine State Museum, running through Oct. 21, 2019! This exhibit builds on a decade of research by Colby students and faculty as well as other community historians. To whet your appetite, and for those who cannot visit the museum in person, you can access…