{"id":491,"date":"2011-04-13T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:39:01","slug":"maine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Individuals and Communities<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>OVERVIEW<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2018\/10\/MSM-Maine-Jewish-Exhibition-Handbook.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine + Jewish: Two Centuries<\/a>,\u201d an exhibition handbook from the Maine State Museum (2018) with a historical essay by David M. Freidenreich<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2015\/05\/Freidenreich-Making-it-in-Maine.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Making it in Maine: Stories of Jewish Life in Small-Town America<\/a>,\u201d <em>Maine History&nbsp;<\/em>(49.1 [2015]), by David M. Freidenreich<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainememory.net\/sitebuilder\/site\/1888\/page\/3104\/display?use_mmn=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jews of Maine<\/a>,\u201d by David M. Freidenreich [essay accompanied by thematic exhibitions on Jewish life in Maine] (May 2011)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2020\/11\/Freidenreich-Esdale-With-a-Little-Help-from-My-Friends.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With a Little Help from My Friends: Jewish Mutual Assistance in Nineteenth-Century Maine<\/a>,\u201d <em>Maine History <\/em>(53.2 [2020]), by David M. Freidenreich and Kristin Esdale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">AROOSTOOK<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/aroostook\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jewish History of Aroostook County<\/a>,\u201d by Natalie Cohen (April 2011)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AUGUSTA: SEE <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/kennebec\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">KENNEBEC VALLEY PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">BATH<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Cogan-Bath-Jews-1930-75.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bath\u2019s Jews, 1930\u20131975: Coping with Modernity<\/a>,\u201d by Nathan Cogan (April 2011)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BANGOR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Merchants and Peddlers of 19th-Century Maine\u201d by Kristin Esdale \u201916 (Spring 2015) [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2015\/03\/Esdale-Merchants-and-peddlers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf of essay<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9W1I0uXlTOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of conference presentation<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLean on Me: Community Building within Bangor\u2019s 1850s Jewish Population,\u201d by Jocelyn Thomas \u201916 (Spring 2015) [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2015\/03\/Thomas-1850s-Jewish-community.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf of essay<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BhAcvI3phJU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of conference presentation<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/videos\/beth-israel\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Congregation Beth Israel, 120 Years<\/em><\/a>, by Sarah Wiseman (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FRANKLIN COUNTY<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2019\/11\/Josephson-Jews-in-Franklin-County.pdf\">Tsimmis and Gefilte Fish: Debating and Celebrating Jewishness in Rural Maine<\/a>,\u201d by Jo Josephson (2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">LEWISTON-AUBURN<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidkrut.com\/pj\/OldHist_Auburn.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Early History of the Jewish Communities in Lewiston-Auburn, Maine; Regeneration: a Look at the Development of Lewiston and Auburn&#8217;s Jewish Communities<\/a>,\u201d by Timothy C. McCall [hosted by Documenting Maine Jewry]<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Anixter-Diaspora-North-Early-Jewish-settlement-in-Lewiston-and-Auburn.pdf\">Diaspora North: Early Jewish Settlement in Lewiston and Auburn<\/a>,\u201d by David Anixter (May 2002)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"..\/files\/2011\/04\/Epstein-Harris-Isaacson-in-L-A.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fitting In and Moving Up: Harris Isaacson in Lewiston-Auburn, 1900-1922<\/a>,\u201d by Elliott Epstein (April 2011)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Jensen-Jewish-merchants-of-Lisbon-Street.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jewish Merchants of Lewiston\u2019s Lisbon Street<\/a>,\u201d by Phyllis Graber Jensen (April 2011)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Birnbaum-College-attendance-among-Jews-in-Lewiston.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Attendance among Jews in Lewiston, Maine, During the Interwar Period<\/a>,\u201d by Andrea Birnbaum &#8217;12 (August 2011)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Lanza-Weil-Hillel-at-Bates-College-the-first-20-years.pdf\">Hillel at Bates College: The First Twenty Years<\/a>,\u201d by Caliandra Lanza-Weil (May 2003)<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"..\/videos\/temple-shalom\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">A Jewish Community, for the 25th Anniversary of Lewiston-Auburn&#8217;s Temple Shalom Synagogue Center<\/a><\/em>, by Phyllis Graber Jensen (2007)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">OLD TOWN<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/old-town\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Seeking Sanctuary: The History of Old Town\u2019s Temple Israel<\/a>,\u201d by Melissa Ladenheim (April 2011)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">PORTLAND<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Lipez-Jewish-secular-institutions-of-Portland.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Time to Build Up and a Time to Break Down: The Jewish Secular Institutions of Portland, Maine<\/a>,\u201d by Julia Lipez (April 2002)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"..\/files\/2011\/04\/Peck-Land-of-Limitless-Opportunities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the Land of Limitless Opportunities: Holocaust Survivors Meet the Jerusalem of the North<\/a>,\u201d by Abraham J. Peck (April 2011)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/portland-merchants\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">The Middle Merchants: Portland\u2019s Jewish Mercantile Community<\/a>,\u201d by Zack Barowitz (April 2011)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2025\/07\/Band-Portland-Jewry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Portland Jewry, Its Growth and Development<\/em><\/a>, by Benjamin Band (Portland: Jewish Historical Society, 1955)<\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"..\/videos\/shaarey-tphiloh\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Shaarey Tphiloh Torah dedication ceremony, 1955 (Portland)<\/a>, prepared by Maine Historical Society<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSoviet Jewish Immigration to Maine,\u201d by Mikaela Johnson \u201916 (Spring 2015) [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2015\/03\/Johnson-Soviet-Jewish-immigration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf of essay<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/v5Ik8C8BFBw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of conference presentation<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">WATERVILLE: SEE <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/kennebec\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">KENNEBEC VALLEY PAGE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>STATEWIDE (THEMATIC)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Maine-Jewish-Heroes.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine\u2019s Jewish Heroes: Fallen Servicemen<\/a>,\u201d by Jim Friedlander and Margie Weiner \u201912 (April 2011)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGhosts of Grief: How Children of Holocaust Survivors Navigated Childhood in Maine,\u201d by David N. Giesel \u201915 (Spring 2015) [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2015\/03\/Giesel-Children-of-Holocaust-survivors.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf of essay<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QHocSmbZwyA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of conference presentation<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2021\/06\/Jacob-Nash-Ethnicity-and-Education.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ethnicity and Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine\u2019s Immigrant Community<\/a>,\u201d by Jacob Nash \u201921 (May 2021)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Religious, Cultural, and Social Life<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>Maine<\/em> Point: Transmitting Jewishness L\u2019dor Vador,\u201d by Lauren Gluck \u201916 (Spring 2015) [<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2015\/03\/Gluck-Transmitting-Jewishness.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf of essay<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6BGHZ9nwwNM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of conference presentation<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/maimonides\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Portland\u2019s Maimonides Club: Pleasant and Profitable Evenings<\/a>,\u201d by Susan Cummings-Lawrence (April 2011)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/downeast-judaism\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Judaism with a Downeast Flair<\/a>,\u201d by Beth Hillson (April 2011)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2013\/05\/Wiesenberg-Maines-summer-camps-for-Jewish-youth.pdf\">The New Promised Land: Maine\u2019s Summer Camps for Jewish Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century<\/a>,\u201d by Charlotte Wiesenberg \u201913 (May 2013)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/summer-camps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine Summer Camps with a Jewish Twist<\/a>,\u201d by Nancy (Silverman) Levinsky \u201983 (April 2011)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/back-to-the-land\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Planting Our Roots and Raising Our Children as Back-to-the-Land Jews<\/a>,\u201d by Deena Weinstein (April 2011)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/artists\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Sound and Light: Jewish Musicians and Artists in Maine<\/a>,\u201d by Deborah Weisgall (April 2011)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000\">Jewish-Gentile Relations<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/maine\/quoddy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Community of Jewish Displaced Persons in Eastport? Local Reactions to the Quoddy Village Proposal<\/a>,\u201d by Jackie Gronau (April 2011)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/08\/Gleckman-Summit-Springs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summit Springs, the Poland Spring Alternative Summer Resort for the Jews of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington<\/a>,\u201d by Harris Gleckman (April 2011, revised August 2011)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/files\/2011\/04\/Peck-Good-for-Jews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Is It Good for the Jews? Maine Jewry between Civic Idealism and the Politics of Reality<\/a>,\u201d by Abraham J. Peck (April 2011)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals and Communities OVERVIEW \u201cMaine + Jewish: Two Centuries,\u201d an exhibition handbook from the Maine State Museum (2018) with a historical essay by David M. Freidenreich \u201cMaking it in Maine: Stories of Jewish Life in Small-Town America,\u201d Maine History&nbsp;(49.1 [2015]), by David M. Freidenreich \u201cThe Jews of Maine,\u201d by David M. 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