A collaboration of the Jewish Studies Department and Special Collections at Colby College
Click here to watch a video lecture by Rabbi Dr. David Freidenreich on “Making It in Maine: Stories of Jewish Life in Small-Town America,” hosted by the Haberman Institute for Jewish Studies. You can read the original article here.
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…