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Maine Jewish History Project

A collaboration of the Jewish Studies Department and Special Collections at Colby College

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Leisure and Recreation

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Leisure and Recreation
Discrimination in Vacationland
Guess where Jews spent their summers
Summer lovin’

A roadside picnic, Calais, ca. 1937
Jewish summer camps
Camp Walden tie
Friday night services at Camp Lown, Oakland, 1947

Camp Lown Songster
Jews and Sports
Johnny “Dutch” Levine and the 1905 Yale football team
Temple Beth El Art Festival, Portland, 1968

Putting on a show, Portland, 1930
The Globe Yiddish Theater, Auburn, 1914
Somewhere in the distant past, a melody was born
“The Dave Astor Show”

Maine Jewish Film Festival
Christmas in Maine

Links

  • Center for Small Town Jewish Life
  • Colby Jewish Studies Department
  • Colby Special Collections
  • Documenting Maine Jewry
  • Maine Memory Network
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