Index to Greater Waterville Research Studies

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