{"id":8,"date":"2010-02-17T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T19:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2015-12-07T23:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:47:40","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jewsinmaine\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Band, Portland Jewry: Its growth and development<\/em> (Portland: Jewish Historical Society, 1955). [link to pdf version, hosted by Documenting Maine Jewry<\/a>]
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Michael R. Cohen, “Adapting Orthodoxy to American life: Shaarey Tphiloh and the development of modern Orthodox Judaism in Portland, Maine, 1904-1976,” Maine History <\/em>44 (2009): 172-95.
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Michael R. Cohen, “Portland: Jerusalem of the North” (undergraduate thesis, Brown University). [devotes particular attention to the history of Portland’s synagogues and the struggle to establish a Conservative synagogue in the first half of the 20th century]<\/span><\/p>\n

Documenting Maine Jewry, Oral History Project<\/em> (oral histories collected in 2009).<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Konnilynn G. Feig, Portraits of the past: The Jews of Portland<\/em> (oral histories collected in 1976). [transcripts available in the Portland Room of the Portland Public Library; audio available through the Portland Public Library website<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n

David M. Freidenreich, \u201cMaking it in Maine: Stories of Jewish Life in Small-Town America<\/a>,\u201d Maine History<\/em> 49.1 (January 2015): 5-38.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judith Goldstein, Crossing lines: Histories of Jews and gentiles in three communities<\/em> (New York: Morrow, 1992). [a history of Jewish life in Bangor, Mount Desert Island, and Calais]<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Hoberman, How strange it seems: The cultural life of Jews in small-town New England<\/em> (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008). [link to Google Books version<\/a> (full text online)]
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David Lyon Hurwitz, “How lucky we were,” American Jewish History <\/em>87 (1999): 29-59. [memories of a Jewish camp in the Belgrade Lakes region]<\/span><\/p>\n

Abraham J. Peck, “Is it good for the Jews? Is is good for everyone? Maine Jewry between civic idealism and the politics of reality,” Diversity at the ballot box: Maine’s minority communities, post-WWII to the present <\/em>(Portland: University of Southern Maine, 2008). [link to pdf version<\/a>]
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Abraham J. Peck and Jean M. Peck, Maine’s Jewish heritage<\/em> (Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2007). (a photographic anthology) [link to Google Books version<\/a> (full text online)]
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Celia Risen, Some jewels of Maine: Jewish Maine pioneers<\/em> (Pittsburgh: Dorrance, 1997).<\/span><\/p>\n

“Haiman Philip Spitz, pioneer Maine merchant: An autobiography” (1886), excerpted by Jacob R. Marcus in Commentary<\/em> 20 (1955): 50-56.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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