Index to Research Studies

Aroostook

Jewish History of Aroostook County by Natalie Cohen 2011 - Natalie Cohen
Natalie Cohen, Jewish History of Aroostook County 2011 - Natalie Cohen

Auburn

Guide to the Papers of Philip Lown 1944-1974 Call Id : P-162 - AJHS, NE
Auburn, Me : An analysis of the Jewish community of Lewiston-Auburn, 1955 "A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Sociology, Bates College". - Raymond Theodore Zelch

Augusta

Temple Beth El : The Jewish community In Augusta date not known
Harvey A Lipman, Fifty years Ago: The Story of Lipman Poultry, Corn and the Maine Central Railroad March 13, 2011

Bangor

Harry M Schwartz, biographical note on ocassion of awarding scholarship in his honor date not known
History of the Jews in Bangor I date not known
History of the Jews in Bangor I b date not known
History of the Jews in Bangor II b date not known
John Paul , biographical note date not known
Moses Sklar, biographical note date not known
History of the Jews in Bangor II date not known
Minutes from Ahawas Achim 1849-1856 date not known
Study of the Congregation AHAWAS ACHIM, 1849 ?“Study of the Congregation AHAWAS ACHIM, Bangor, Maine ?from 1849 to 1856 from the minutes of the Congregation” (1957) - Elizabeth Stevens
Finding Aid, Bangor Jewish Community Center Special Collection, Bangor Public Library - Special Collections 1915-2006
Bangor Jewish Community Center Self Survey 1951
William Leffler II , A Study of Congregation Ahawas Achim, Bangor, Maine for 1849 to 1856 from the Minutes of the Congregation May 1957
Finding Aid, Faces of Bangor Collection : Jewish Community, Bangor Public Library - Special Collections 1947-1988
History of the Jews in Bangor I 1977
History of the Jews in Bangor II 1977
History of the Jews in Bangor III 1977
Finding Aid, Cohen Family Collection , Bangor Public Library- Special Collections 1971-1983
Finding Aid, Minsky Family collection, Bangor Public Library - Special Collections 1943-1987
Finding Aid, Widows, Orphans and Wounded Soldiers of Israel Fund & Bessie Motiuk, Bangor Public Library - Special Collections 1975-2002

Bath

Beth Israel History date not known - Donald Povich
Chronology (1) of Bath Jewry date not known - Donald Povich
Chronology (2) of Bath Jewry date not known - Donald Povich
Chronology (3) of Bath Jewry date not known - Donald Povich
Filene Story date not known - Donald Povich
Jews in Bath (anonymous) date not known - Fred Weinberg
[Beth Israel] Synagogue Land Purchase date not known - Donald Povich
Eva Solovich - birth certificate Aug 26, 1894 - Sherri Quint
Eva Solovich - death certificate April 15, 1899 - Sherri Quint
History of the [Beth Israel] Sisterhood 1919-62 - Frances Smith
1920–1975-Coping with Modernity 1920 - 1975 - Nathan Cogan
History of Bath 1936 - Henry Wilson Owen
The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath, Maine (1936) 1936 - Fred Weinberg
The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath, Maine (1936) - Harry Brown 1936 - Fred Weinberg
The Edward Clarence Plummer History of Bath, Maine (1936) - Morris S Povich 1936 - Fred Weinberg
[Beth Israel] Minyans 1940's-60's 1940's-60's - Steve Singer
Jews in Bath (anonymous) 1962 - Frances Smith
Beth Israel Congregation history 1972 - Dorice Povich Mensh
A Passover Celebration in Bath Apr-78 - Jeannette K Cakouros
The Filenes of Boston 1979 - Leon Harris
A History of the Bath Synagogue 18-Sep-88 - Nancy Heiser
The Synagogue's ]Beth Israel] Founders 1988 - Nathan Cogan
Early Jewish Families of Bath by Alfred T Holt 1999 Patten Free Library (Bath)
Nathan Cogan, Memoir of Bath, Maine: Recollections of My Family and The First & Second Generation Jewish Immigrants, 1886-1960 , Beth Israel Congregation Reunion, Sunday, September 13, 2009 1886-1960 - Nathan Cogan
Nathan Cogan, Bath's Jews, 1930-1975: Coping with Modernity 2011 - Nathan Cogan
A Memoir of Bath by Nathan Cogan 7/4/1905 - Nathan Cogan

Biddeford-Saco

A Century of Jewish Life in Biddeford-Saco : An Introduction circa 2006
A History Of Congregation Etz Chaim - Biddeford Maine circa 2006 note all donations in are cents

Brunswick

Lewiston Evening Journal 1929-11-02 1929
Bernard and Sarah Waterman 2016
Bernard and Sarah Waterman - Descendents. 2016
Ester Khazanovich Lelansky 2016
Family Immigration Dates 2016
Family Origins in Europe 2016
Fayvl Chazanavicius - Descendants 2016
Immigration 2016
Jacob Singer. 2016
Max Singer 2016
Me and Henry by Ed Waterman-Memories of Portland 2016
Singer Family in Maine 2016
Singer Family in Maine - acknowledgements 2016
Singer Family in Maine - introduction 2016

Calais

"The Immigrant Spirit : the Making of America " by Arthur Unobskey 4-Jun-84 Coll S-7009

Franklin

Tsimmis and Gefilte Fish : Debating and Celebrating Jewishness in Rural [Franklin County] Maine 2011

Lewiston

Albert Enrenfried Papers 1901 - 1951 born in Lewiston on 9 Feb 1880 to George and Rachel (Blauspan) Ehrenfried
Jewish community of Lewiston, thesis submitted for Sociology 222 1 June 1945 - David M. Freidenreich
The Jewish Community of Lewiston 1945 Student paper for Bates Sociology 222 - Rohna Isaacson
Lewiston, Me : An analysis of the Jewish community of Lewiston-Auburn 1955 "A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Sociology, Bates College". - Raymond Theodore Zelch
Lewiston Maine Jewish community - a People in Transition 1977 circa - David M. Freidenreich
"These I Do Remember : Fragments from the Holocaust" by Gerda Hass 1982
Caliandra Lanza-Weil “Hillel at Bates College: The First Twenty Years” 05/19/03
Agenda of the first Maine Jewish History Conference, co-hosted by the Maine Historical Society and Documenting Maine Jewry 2009
Phyllis Graber Jensen, The Jewish Merchants of Lewiston's Lisbon Street 2011 - Phyllis Graber Jensen

Lewiston-Auburn

Fitting in and Moving Up : Harris Isaacson in Lewiston-Auburn, by Elliott L Epstein 1900-1922 - Elliott L Epstein
Story of the Jews in Lewiston and Auburn 1930 - David M. Freidenreich
Growth of Jewish Population in Lewiston and Auburn - Senior Thesis, Bates College 1936 - David M. Freidenreich
The Story of the Jews in Lewiston and Auburn circa 1950 Student paper for Bates College course / Lewiston 305.8 A457s - Israel Alpren and Hymen Bornstein
Analysis of the Jewish community of Lewiston-Auburn, thesis submitted to Dept of Sociology, Bates College June 1955 - David M. Freidenreich
Paul H Gottlieb, PhD, The Lewiston, Maine Jewish Community : A People in Transition 1977 - Phyllis Graber
A Brief History of Jewish Businesses and Employment in Lewiston and Auburn, paper Historical Methods course 23 May 2003 includes a 'rough listing of Jews and Their Occupations as Stated in the Lewiston/Auburn and Androscroggin County Directories Between 1872 and 1900-01" - Benjamin Haley
Timothy C. McCall An Early History of the Jewish Communities in Lewiston – Auburn, Maine Regeneration: A Look at the Development of Lewiston and Auburn's Jewish Communities 2006 - Timothy C McCall
Elliott Epstein, Fitting In & Moving Up: H Isaacson in Lewiston/Auburn 1900-1922 2011 - Elliott Epstein

Lewiston-Skowhegan

"What do Lewiston, NY Yiddish Theater, Skowhegan, and The Forward have to do with each other?" by Harris Gleckman and 2011 Coll. S-7559, Misc. Box 271/2

Maine

Crossing lines : a record of the 1992-93 exhibit conceived by Judith S. Goldstein and organized by the University of Maine Museum of Art. ca 1993 974.1 G578 1994 : This edition published for libraries and historical societies by Eliot and Melanie Cutler, 1994.
The Changing Landscape of Jewish Organizations : slideshow 2012 Jena Hershkowitz, author, Colby Class of 2012
Contributing, Advancing, Succeeding : Jews and Occupations : slideshow circa 2012 Spence Kasko, author, member of the Colby College class of 2012
Experiences of Jewish Teenages in Maine circa 2012 Madeline Kurtz, author, a member of the Colby College Class of 2014
Jews as Mainers : Jewish Contributions to Maine's Culture circa 2012
Preserving Jewish Traditions and Culture : slideshow circa 2012 Roby Wardell, author, Colby College Class of 2011
Hall of Fame Program Book - Maine Jewish Museum Oct 7, 2018
Hall of Fame Program Book - Maine Jewish Museum Sept 22, 2019
Maine's Jewish Organizational Leaders and Staff at the start of 5782 as of Oct 2021 - Harris Gleckman
Hall of Fame Program Book - Maine Jewish Museum Sept 19, 2021

Maine - statewide

Facts : Restrictive Resorts, The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, vol 10 no 2 March 1955 Maine hotels are cited on pages 44 -45 - Gerry Baumgarten, Archival Researcher, ADL
Anti-Semitism in the United States in 1947, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith 1956 prepared by Arnold Forster, National Director, and the staff of the Civil Rights Division of ADL / references to Maine on pg 84 and pg 86 - Gerry Baumgarten, Archival Researcher, ADL
Rights : National Survery of Resorts , ADL Reports on Social, Employment, Educational and Housing Discrimination, Vol 1, no 7 1957 references to Maine on pgs 17, 18, and 20 - Gerry Baumgarten, Archival Researcher, ADL
Abraham Peck, " Is it Good for the Jews ? Is it Good For Everyone ? Maine Jewry Between Civil Idealism and the Politics of Reality" in 2008 also available at http://library.usm.maine.edu/pdfs/speccoll/SampsonCenterBook2008.pdf
Abraham Peck, " As Jewish Maine Goes, So Goes American Jewry : Perspectives on the American Jewish Experience" , paper presented at the Bates College Forum on Maine Jewish History, October 2009 Oct 2009
Jewish Geography of the Pine Tree State 11/5/2010
Nancy Silverman Levinsky, Maine Summer Camps with a Jewish Twist 2011 - Nancy Silverman Levinsky

North Belgrade

Camp Kennebec History of the Season of 1924 1924
The History of Camp Kennebec 1973 1973

Old Town

Beth Hillson, Judaism with a Downeast Flair 2011 - Beth Hillson
Melissa Ladenheim, Seeking Sanctuary: The History of Old Town's Temple Israel 2011 - Melissa Ladenheim

Poland

Summit Springs : the Poland Springs alternative summer resort for the German Jewish Elite of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, prepared originally for the Second Maine Jewish History Conference at Colby College, Spring 2011 2011 revised August 2011

Portland

Charlotte Goos - portrait date not known - Sherri Quint
Ellis and Bella Waterman - marriage certificate June 4, 1905 - Sherri Quint
Chaim Nasan Shohet of Portland, short bio & cover page of his book Secher Chaim 1913
Fannie Barron Hoffman - marriage record Oct 21, 1914 - Sherri Quint
Charlotte B. Wernick , The History of Portland Section of the National Council of Jewish Women 1920-1986 - Abraham Schechter / Harris Gleckman
David and Sadie Ruth (Shulman) Ginsberg - marriage certificate June 29, 1920 - Sherri Quint
Schriro Drug Stroe Accessor Record I 1921 - Sherri Quint
Dora Herman - death certificate April 9, 1922 - Sherri Quint
Schriro Drug Store Accessor Record II 1924 - Sherri Quint
The Growth of Portland's Jewish Community Life, essay by Dr Elias Cohen 4 Oct 1940 - Dr Elias Caplan
Louis Schriro Will July 25, 1940 - Sherri Quint
Dr Elias Caplan, The Growth of Portland's Jewish Community Life : A Complete History from the Very Beginning of the City's Jewish Life to Its Present-Day Prominence", Oct 14, 1940, reprint of article from the Jewish Advocate, Boston Oct 1940 Coll 1219
Guide to the Papers of Israel Bernstein 1945-1986 Call Id : P-51 - AJHS, NE
Alexander S Kohanski Papers 1923- 1983 He served on the Maine Jewish Council
Susan Most collection circa 1973 - 2000 Coll 2558
Rabbi Harry Z Sky , "The Portland Jewish Community : A Look at Its Early Days", lecture at the Portland Public Library 1981 Coll. S-6354 Misc Box 190/9 - Bella Cowan
Michael R. Cohen, Jerusalem of the North: An Analysis of Religious Modernization in Portland, Maine 2000
Michael R. Cohen, Jerusalem of the North: An Analysis of Religious Modernization in Portland, Maine's Jewish Community, 1860-1950 (Undergraduate Thesis, Brown University, 2000) April, 2000
Michael R. Cohen, Jerusalem of the North: An Analysis of Religious Modernization in Portland, Maine's Jewish Community, 1860-1950 (Undergraduate Thesis, Brown University, 2000) April, 2000
Michael R. Cohen, Jerusalem of the North: An Analysis of Religious Modernization in Portland, Maine's Jewish Community, 1860-1950 (Undergraduate Thesis, Brown University, 2000) April, 2000
Michael R. Cohen, Jerusalem of the North: An Analysis of Religious Modernization in Portland, Maine's Jewish Community, 1860-1950 (Undergraduate Thesis, Brown University, 2000) April, 2000
Julia M. Lipez “A Time to Build Up and a Time to Break Down: The Jewish Secular Institutions of Portland, Maine” 04/05/02
Julia Lipez , A Time to Build Up and a Time to Break Down : The Jewish Secular Institutions of Portland, Maine, senior thesis, Amherst College, 2002 2002
2007 Portland Maine (Cumberland/York Counties) Jewish Community Study Jun-07 - Harris Gleckman
Michael R Cohen, Adapting Orthodoxy to American Life : Shaarey Tphiloh and the Development of Modern Orthodox Judaism in Portland, Maine 1904- 1976, Maine Historical Society Journal, 2010 2010 (OCR; send to TEXT)
Susan Cummings-Lawrence, Portland's Maimonides Club 2011 - Susan Cummings-Lawrence
Zac Berkowitz, The Middle Merchants: Portland's Jewish Mercantile Community 2011 - Zac Berkowitz
Abraham J. Peck “In the Land of Limitless Opportunities: Holocaust Survivors Meet the Jerusalem of the North” April 2011
Abraham J. Peck “Is It Good for the Jews? Maine Jewry between Civic Idealism and the Politics of Reality” April 2011
A Project to Document Maine Jewry by Harris Gleckman summer 2011 Volume XXVII, number 2, Summer 2011
Jewish Soldiers and Sailors, The Great War 2016
Those Who Gave Their Lifes: World War II 2016
Fallen Heroes : Maine's Jewish Sailors and Solders date not known Susan Cummings-Lawrence, author
Moscow Wedding : Wilansky Family Wedding in Moscow by Rabbi Gary Berenson Dec 2019 an account of the wedding of Mendel Wilansky (son of Rabbi Moshe and Chani Wilansky) to Leah Lazar (daughter of Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel and Chani Lazar.

Portland / Los Angeles

Blanche Schriro - death certificate Dec 14, 1921 - Sherri Quint

Rockport

Deborah Weisgall, Sound and Light: Jewish Artists and Musicians in Maine 2011 - Deborah Weisgall

rural Maine

Deena Weinstein, Planting Our Roots and Rasing Our Children as Back-to-the-Land Jews 2011 - Deena Weinstein

South Porltand

Bet Ha'am congregational profile. ca 2000 Coll. S-7041, Misc. Box 236/28 : Congregation Bet Ha'am in South Portland, Me. The congregation was founded in 1985 by a group of people looking for a Reform alternative to the existing Portland synagogues.

South Portland

"Bet Ha'am congregational profile " by Barbara Riegelhaupt circa 2000 Coll S-7041, Misc Box 236/28
Smith St Cemetery veterans burials by Susan Cummings-Lawrence circa 2000 Coll S-8071, Misc Box 299/11

to be determined

Jewish Geography, the Maine Way 11/5/2010
The Secret in the Suitcase by Barbara Howard and Theresa Pease, Brandeis Magazine , Spring 2011 2011 - Elliott L Epstein
Abraham Peck, In the Land of Limitless Opportunities: Holocaust Survivors Meet the Jerusalem of the North 2011 - Abraham Peck
Making It In Maine : Stories of Jewish Life In Small-Town America Winter 2015

Washington DC

"The Enemy Has a Face : The Seeds of Peace Experience" by John Wallach with Michael Wallach 2000 Auburn, Norway, Scarborough public libraries and MHS

Waterville

David Anixter “Diaspora North: Early Jewish Settlement in Lewiston and Auburn” 05/23/02
Benjamin Haley “A Brief History of Jewish Businesses and Employment in Lewiston and Auburn” 05/23/03 Includes posters for all listed Jewish-owned companies and stores in Lewiston.
Beth Israel Congregation. ca 2008 Coll. S-7007, Misc. Box 235/8
Prof. David M. Freidenreich & Desiree Shayer “A Tale of Two Colleges: Jews and Maine's Baptist Institutions during the Interwar Years” 12/21/10
Becky Muller, "Dating and Marriage Trends in Small-Town Jewish Communities" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Becky Muller, Colby '10
Desiree Shayer, "Jewish Students from Away at Colby College : Anti-Semitism and Acceptance in the Interwar Years" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Desiree Shayer '12, Colby
Hasan Bhitti, "Jewish Participation in Waterville Civic Organizations" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Hasan Bhatti, Colby '10
Katie Peterson, "Jewish Fraternities at Colby" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Katie Peterson '10, Colby
Kimi Kossler, "Jewish Mothers in Kennebec County" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Kimi Kossler, Colby '12
Nicole Mitchell, " Religious Education in Kennebec County" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Nicole Mitchell '10, Colby
Sam Levine, " Occupational Trends of Jews in Kennebec County" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Sam Levine '11 Colby
Spencer Kasho, "Waterville, Maine, of All Places : Population Patterns in Waterville's Fledging Jewish Community " , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course Jan 2010 - Spencer Kasho, Colby '12
Katie Peterson “Tau Delta Phi: Colby's Jewish Fraternity” January 2010
Becky Muller “A Community Apart: Women's Experiences in Waterville, Maine, 1945-1970” May 2010
Hasan Bhatti “100 Years of Beth Israel” May 2010
Harris Gleckman “Summit Springs: The Poland Springs alternative summer resort for the German Jewish elite of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington” 06/08/11
The Latke Brigade 06/16/11 Recipe as shared by Gisele Miller's daughter, Julie Miller-Soros.
Jews Before There Were Jews 06/17/11
Jewish organizations in Waterville 07/03/11
Jewish participation in non-Jewish civic organizations 07/03/11
2011
Adam Thompson, "Key Factors in the Transmission of Jewish Identity during the Postwar Years", paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011
Amy Eklund, "Jews in Vacationland" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011 - Amy Eklund
Center Youth 2011
Dances 2011
Hannah Dhonau, From Away: The Experiences of Gisele Baroukel Miller in Waterville 2011 - Hannah Dhonau
Intermarriage 2011
Isadora Alleon, “Prosperity is Just Around the Corner”: Migration Patterns of Waterville Jews, paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011
Jena Hershkowitz, We Did the Short Kiddush: Patterns and Practices of Jewish Religious Life 2011 - Jena Hershkowitz
Kimiko Kossler, Moving In, Moving Out, and Moving Up: Jews in Waterville in the Early 20thCentury 2011 - Kimiko Kossler
Kosher Lobster? 2011 Recipe as published in Joan Nathan's Jewish Cooking in America.
Lyoe Lee, Jewish Manufacturers in Maine: The Gearshifters, paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011
Madeline Kurtz, Food and Jewish Identity in Waterville 2011 - Madeline Kurtz
Miles de Klerk, "Change Over Time: Jewish-Gentile relations in Waterville", paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011
Miles de Klerk, Change over Time: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Waterville 2011 - Miles de Klerk
Resources 2011
Sarah Miller Arnon and Julie Miller Soros, The History of Levine's: The Store for Men and Boys 2011 - Sarah Miller Arnon and Julie Miller Soros
Summer Camps 2011
Tendai M'ndange-Pfupfu, Jews in Waterville in the Interwar Years: Occupations, Affluence, and the Career Choices of Children 2011
Yichen Jiang, "Jewish Philanthropy in 1950s Waterville", paper prepared from Colby Jan 2011 course 2011
Jaclyn Gronau “The Quoddy Village Proposal: A Community of Jewish Displaced Persons in Eastport, Maine” April 2011
Phyllis Graber Jensen “The Jewish Merchants of Lewiston's Lisbon Street April 2011
The Jewish History of Aroostook County April 2011
Andrea Birnbaum “College Attendance Among Jews in Lewiston, Maine, During the Interwar Period” August 2011
Hannah Dhonau “When Howard Met Gisèle” January 2011
Tendai M'ndange-Pfupfu “Jews in Waterville in the Interwar Years: Occupations, Affluence, and the Career Choices of Children” January 2011
Miles de Klerk “The Jews and Lebanese of Waterville: Comparison of 1930 Census Data” July 2011
Yichen Jiang “Waterville's Jewish Retailers during the Great Depression” Sept 2011
Jim Friedland & Margie Weiner “Maine's Jewish Heroes: Fallen Servicemen” 2012 this link does not work : send to David
Miles de Klerk “Kibbee, Community and Culture: Lebanese Food and Identity in Waterville” 05/07/13 For the class “Food and Religious Identity with Professor David Freidenreich”
Calvin Lee “The United Nations Fraternity: Tau Delta Phi” January 2013
Ginny Keesler “Jewish Philanthropy to Colby College” January 2013
Michelle Wang “Ludy and Colby: A Lifelong Love Story” January 2013
Thomas Williams “Hillel at Colby: The Early Years” January 2013
Thomas Williams “Jewishness at Colby” January 2013
Charlotte Wiesenberg “The New Promised Land: Maine's Summer Camps for Jewish Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century” Spring 2013
David M. Freidenreich “Making it Maine: Stories of Jewish Life in Small-Town America” January 2015
With a little help from my friends : Jewish mutual assistance in nineteenth-century Maine" by David Freidenreich and Kristin Esdale Nov 2016 (future MHS publication , circa 2020) David M Freidenreich and Kristin Esdale