{"id":75,"date":"2010-03-01T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/?page_id=75"},"modified":"2010-03-03T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T14:59:16","slug":"gordon-wolman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/kennebec\/religious-education\/gordon-wolman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Wolman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gordon was born in 1919 and grew up in Waterville, Maine. Gordon studied with Abraham Hains at Talmud Torah to prepare for his Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He and his wife, Myrtle, raised their children in Waterville and sent them to Sunday school and Hebrew school there. Gordon and Myrt were interviewed by Hasan Bhatti.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gordon Wolman: The Cheder was taught at the Talmud Torah. All I was taught was how to read, period. I was taught nothing about the holidays, nothing about the religion. Bar mitzvah preparation, that was all. Myrt knows more about it than I do, the Jewish religion and holidays. What I know is what I just picked up from services and my mother.<\/p>\n

Myrtle Wolman: Excuse me. The reason why you always did what your mother did is because she did what her parents did. He doesn\u2019t know the reason or the history of seder and so forth. But he\u2019s learned! And the kids bring it home too when they have gone to Sunday school. You too?<\/p>\n

Hasan Bhatti: Yeah, same thing. Same thing with me and my mom also. That\u2019s how Jews do.<\/p>\n

MW: Yeah, except we\u2019re in a small town, we\u2019re not isolated but certainly further north than many Jews are. But we\u2019ve survived. It\u2019s a good place to bring up Jewish children too. It\u2019s just that you need enough of them to build up a class of them in whatever it happens to be, Hebrew or Sunday school.<\/p>\n

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HB: How was it raising children here, both of you?<\/p>\n

MW: [Shrugs shoulders] Easy!<\/p>\n

GW: Yeah, it wasn\u2019t any problem. They always went to Hebrew school and we always had a rabbi up until this past year. The rabbi was the teacher and he did everything else. And in 1950, no 1957, they built the new synagogue (MW: \u201959 is what the cornerstone says). And we also had a synagogue down the street on Kelsey Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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