{"id":712,"date":"2011-06-13T14:58:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T18:14:42","slug":"stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/exhibition\/intro\/stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jews Before There Were Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian Mainers had ideas about Jews long before any Jews arrived in Maine. These ideas came from the Bible, Christian tradition, and common negative stereotypes. Many Christians were fascinated\u2014and some were disturbed\u2014by the first Jews who lived in their midst.<\/p>\n

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Hebrew-Latin Bible Concordance<\/h3>\n

No one knows how this volume, published in Switzerland in 1632, found its way to Bath. It was probably the property of a local Christian minister with scholarly inclinations. The book is now owned by a descendant of Nathan Petlock, a Jewish junk dealer\u2014Nathan found it one day while collecting\u00a0junk!<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Nathan Cogan<\/p>\n

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John Langdon Sibley, A History of the Town of Union<\/em> (1851)<\/h3>\n

John Sibley was clearly fascinated by Susman Abrams, the only Jew who lived in Union during the early 19th century. \u00a0No other resident of the town merits a footnote this long in Sibley\u2019s book. \u00a0This footnote offers the earliest known depiction of a Jewish Mainer. \u00a0Click here for a larger version of the text.<\/a><\/p>\n

Courtesy of Colby Libraries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian Mainers had ideas about Jews long before any Jews arrived in Maine. These ideas came from the Bible, Christian tradition, and common negative stereotypes. Many Christians were fascinated\u2014and some were disturbed\u2014by the first Jews who lived in their midst. Hebrew-Latin Bible Concordance No one knows how this volume, published in Switzerland in 1632, found…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2894,"featured_media":0,"parent":752,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/712"}],"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\/2894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/712\/revisions\/717"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}