Index to Greater Waterville Research Studies

Waterville

• David Anixter “Diaspora North: Early Jewish Settlement in Lewiston and Auburn” 2002      
• Benjamin Haley “A Brief History of Jewish Businesses and Employment in Lewiston and Auburn” 2003   Includes posters for all listed Jewish-owned companies and stores in Lewiston.    
• Beth Israel Congregation. 2008   Coll. S-7007, Misc. Box 235/8      
• Becky Muller “A Community Apart: Women's Experiences in Waterville, Maine, 1945-1970” 2010      
• Becky Muller, "Dating and Marriage Trends in Small-Town Jewish Communities" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course 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 2010       - Desiree Shayer '12, Colby
• Hasan Bhatti “100 Years of Beth Israel” 2010      
• Hasan Bhitti, "Jewish Participation in Waterville Civic Organizations" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course 2010       - Hasan Bhatti, Colby '10
• Katie Peterson “Tau Delta Phi: Colby's Jewish Fraternity” 2010      
• Katie Peterson, "Jewish Fraternities at Colby" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course 2010       - Katie Peterson '10, Colby
• Kimi Kossler, "Jewish Mothers in Kennebec County" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course 2010       - Kimi Kossler, Colby '12
• Nicole Mitchell, " Religious Education in Kennebec County" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course 2010       - Nicole Mitchell '10, Colby
• Prof. David M. Freidenreich & Desiree Shayer “A Tale of Two Colleges: Jews and Maine's Baptist Institutions during the Interwar Years” 2010      
• Sam Levine, " Occupational Trends of Jews in Kennebec County" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2010 course 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 2010       - Spencer Kasho, Colby '12
• 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
• Andrea Birnbaum “College Attendance Among Jews in Lewiston, Maine, During the Interwar Period” 2011      
• Center Youth 2011      
• Dances 2011      
• Hannah Dhonau “When Howard Met Gisèle” 2011      
• Hannah Dhonau, From Away: The Experiences of Gisele Baroukel Miller in Waterville 2011       - Hannah Dhonau
• Harris Gleckman “Summit Springs: The Poland Springs alternative summer resort for the German Jewish elite of New York, Philadelphia, and Washington” 2011      
• Intermarriage 2011      
• Isadora Alleon, “Prosperity is Just Around the Corner”: Migration Patterns of Waterville Jews, paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011      
• Jaclyn Gronau “The Quoddy Village Proposal: A Community of Jewish Displaced Persons in Eastport, Maine” 2011      
• Jena Hershkowitz, We Did the Short Kiddush: Patterns and Practices of Jewish Religious Life 2011       - Jena Hershkowitz
• Jewish organizations in Waterville 2011      
• Jewish participation in non-Jewish civic organizations 2011      
• Jews Before There Were Jews 2011      
• 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 “The Jews and Lebanese of Waterville: Comparison of 1930 Census Data” 2011      
• 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
• Phyllis Graber Jensen “The Jewish Merchants of Lewiston's Lisbon Street 2011      
• 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      
• Tendai M'ndange-Pfupfu, Jews in Waterville in the Interwar Years: Occupations, Affluence, and the Career Choices of Children 2011      
• The Jewish History of Aroostook County 2011      
• The Latke Brigade 2011   Recipe as shared by Gisele Miller's daughter, Julie Miller-Soros.    
• Yichen Jiang “Waterville's Jewish Retailers during the Great Depression” 2011      
• Yichen Jiang, "Jewish Philanthropy in 1950s Waterville", paper prepared from Colby Jan 2011 course 2011      
• Jim Friedland & Margie Weiner “Maine's Jewish Heroes: Fallen Servicemen” 2012   this link does not work : send to David    
• Calvin Lee “The United Nations Fraternity: Tau Delta Phi” 2013      
• Charlotte Wiesenberg “The New Promised Land: Maine's Summer Camps for Jewish Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century” 2013      
• Ginny Keesler “Jewish Philanthropy to Colby College” 2013      
• Michelle Wang “Ludy and Colby: A Lifelong Love Story” 2013      
• Miles de Klerk “Kibbee, Community and Culture: Lebanese Food and Identity in Waterville” 2013   For the class “Food and Religious Identity with Professor David Freidenreich”    
• Thomas Williams “Hillel at Colby: The Early Years” 2013      
• Thomas Williams “Jewishness at Colby” 2013      
• David M. Freidenreich “Making it Maine: Stories of Jewish Life in Small-Town America” 2015      
• With a little help from my friends : Jewish mutual assistance in nineteenth-century Maine" by David Freidenreich and Kristin Esdale 2016   David M Freidenreich and Kristin Esdale