Individuals and Communities
OVERVIEW
- “Maine + Jewish: Two Centuries,” an exhibition handbook from the Maine State Museum (2018) with a historical essay by David M. Freidenreich
- “Making it in Maine: Stories of Jewish Life in Small-Town America,” Maine History (49.1 [2015]), by David M. Freidenreich
- “The Jews of Maine,” by David M. Freidenreich [essay accompanied by thematic exhibitions on Jewish life in Maine] (May 2011)
- “With a Little Help from My Friends: Jewish Mutual Assistance in Nineteenth-Century Maine,” Maine History (53.2 [2020]), by David M. Freidenreich and Kristin Esdale
AROOSTOOK
- “The Jewish History of Aroostook County,” by Natalie Cohen (April 2011)
AUGUSTA: SEE KENNEBEC VALLEY PAGE
BATH
- “Bath’s Jews, 1930–1975: Coping with Modernity,” by Nathan Cogan (April 2011)
BANGOR
- “The Merchants and Peddlers of 19th-Century Maine” by Kristin Esdale ’16 (Spring 2015) [pdf of essay] [video of conference presentation]
- “Lean on Me: Community Building within Bangor’s 1850s Jewish Population,” by Jocelyn Thomas ’16 (Spring 2015) [pdf of essay] [video of conference presentation]
- Congregation Beth Israel, 120 Years, by Sarah Wiseman (2009)
FRANKLIN COUNTY
- “Tsimmis and Gefilte Fish: Debating and Celebrating Jewishness in Rural Maine,” by Jo Josephson (2009)
LEWISTON-AUBURN
- “An Early History of the Jewish Communities in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine; Regeneration: a Look at the Development of Lewiston and Auburn’s Jewish Communities,” by Timothy C. McCall [hosted by Documenting Maine Jewry]
- “Diaspora North: Early Jewish Settlement in Lewiston and Auburn,” by David Anixter (May 2002)
- “Fitting In and Moving Up: Harris Isaacson in Lewiston-Auburn, 1900-1922,” by Elliott Epstein (April 2011)
- “The Jewish Merchants of Lewiston’s Lisbon Street,” by Phyllis Graber Jensen (April 2011)
- “College Attendance among Jews in Lewiston, Maine, During the Interwar Period,” by Andrea Birnbaum ’12 (August 2011)
- “Hillel at Bates College: The First Twenty Years,” by Caliandra Lanza-Weil (May 2003)
- A Jewish Community, for the 25th Anniversary of Lewiston-Auburn’s Temple Shalom Synagogue Center, by Phyllis Graber Jensen (2007)
OLD TOWN
- “Seeking Sanctuary: The History of Old Town’s Temple Israel,” by Melissa Ladenheim (April 2011)
PORTLAND
- “A Time to Build Up and a Time to Break Down: The Jewish Secular Institutions of Portland, Maine,” by Julia Lipez (April 2002)
- “In the Land of Limitless Opportunities: Holocaust Survivors Meet the Jerusalem of the North,” by Abraham J. Peck (April 2011)
- “The Middle Merchants: Portland’s Jewish Mercantile Community,” by Zack Barowitz (April 2011)
- Portland Jewry, Its Growth and Development, by Benjamin Band (Portland: Jewish Historical Society, 1955) [hosted by Documenting Maine Jewry]
- Shaarey Tphiloh Torah dedication ceremony, 1955 (Portland), prepared by Maine Historical Society
- “Soviet Jewish Immigration to Maine,” by Mikaela Johnson ’16 (Spring 2015) [pdf of essay] [video of conference presentation]
WATERVILLE: SEE KENNEBEC VALLEY PAGE
STATEWIDE (THEMATIC)
- “Maine’s Jewish Heroes: Fallen Servicemen,” by Jim Friedlander and Margie Weiner ’12 (April 2011)
- “Ghosts of Grief: How Children of Holocaust Survivors Navigated Childhood in Maine,” by David N. Giesel ’15 (Spring 2015) [pdf of essay] [video of conference presentation]
- “Ethnicity and Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine’s Immigrant Community,” by Jacob Nash ’21 (May 2021)
Religious, Cultural, and Social Life
“The Maine Point: Transmitting Jewishness L’dor Vador,” by Lauren Gluck ’16 (Spring 2015) [pdf of essay] [video of conference presentation]
“Portland’s Maimonides Club: Pleasant and Profitable Evenings,” by Susan Cummings-Lawrence (April 2011)
“Judaism with a Downeast Flair,” by Beth Hillson (April 2011)
“The New Promised Land: Maine’s Summer Camps for Jewish Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century,” by Charlotte Wiesenberg ’13 (May 2013)
“Maine Summer Camps with a Jewish Twist,” by Nancy (Silverman) Levinsky ’83 (April 2011)
“Planting Our Roots and Raising Our Children as Back-to-the-Land Jews,” by Deena Weinstein (April 2011)
“Sound and Light: Jewish Musicians and Artists in Maine,” by Deborah Weisgall (April 2011)
Jewish-Gentile Relations
“A Community of Jewish Displaced Persons in Eastport? Local Reactions to the Quoddy Village Proposal,” by Jackie Gronau (April 2011)
“Summit Springs, the Poland Spring Alternative Summer Resort for the Jews of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington,” by Harris Gleckman (April 2011, revised August 2011)
“Is It Good for the Jews? Maine Jewry between Civic Idealism and the Politics of Reality,” by Abraham J. Peck (April 2011)