{"id":588,"date":"2011-06-08T14:09:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T18:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T14:52:12","slug":"exhibition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lobster and Latkes: Jewish Life in Maine<\/h1>\n

What has it meant to be a Jew from Maine? \u00a0There\u2019s no single answer to this question. \u00a0After\u00a0all, Jews think about their Jewishness in many\u00a0different ways: as a religious identity, a cultural\u00a0heritage, a source of ethnic pride.<\/p>\n

Maine is equally\u00a0diverse, and its Jews have lived in towns large\u00a0and small from Kittery to Fort Kent. \u00a0Maine\u2014and\u00a0Jewishness\u2014have also changed a lot since the\u00a0first Jews settled here in colonial times. \u00a0The story of Jewish life in Maine, one might say, is\u00a0a story of lobster<\/a> and latkes<\/a>: thoroughly Maine and\u00a0distinctively Jewish. \u00a0It\u2019s been that way for over 200\u00a0years, but each Jewish Mainer has blended these\u00a0identities differently.<\/p>\n

We invite you to explore some of the stories of\u00a0Jewish life in Maine. \u00a0How does your own story\u00a0relate? What does it mean to you to be a ________\u00a0from Maine?<\/p>\n

Browse the complete exhibition<\/p>\n

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  1. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Occupational Activities<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Religious Life<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Communal Life<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Life Cycle<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Maine’s Jews in America’s Wars<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Leisure and Recreation<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Jews in Maine’s Colleges<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Take a thematic tour (hosted by Maine Memory Network)<\/p>\n

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    1. Overview: The Jews of Maine<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. The Changing Landscape of Jewish Organizations<\/a><\/li>\n
    3. Jews as Mainers: Jewish Contributions to Maine’s Cultural Landscape<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Preserving Jewish Traditions and Culture<\/a><\/li>\n
    5. Contributing, Advancing, Succeeding: Jews and Occupations<\/a><\/li>\n
    6. Experiences of Jewish Teenagers in Maine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Exhibition design team:<\/strong> Miles de Klerk ’13, Jena Hershkowitz ’12, Spencer Kasko ’12, Madeline Kurtz ’14, Robyn Wardell ’11, Margie Weiner ’12.\u00a0 Directed by David M. Freidenreich, Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies.<\/p>\n

      This exhibition was made possible by a 2010-11 grant from the Legacy Heritage Jewish Studies Project, directed by the Association for Jewish Studies.\u00a0 Support for the project is generously provided by Legacy Heritage Fund Limited.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Lobster and Latkes: Jewish Life in Maine What has it meant to be a Jew from Maine? \u00a0There\u2019s no single answer to this question. \u00a0After\u00a0all, Jews think about their Jewishness in many\u00a0different ways: as a religious identity, a cultural\u00a0heritage, a source of ethnic pride. Maine is equally\u00a0diverse, and its Jews have lived in towns large\u00a0and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":616,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/588\/revisions\/616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}