College Attendance Among Jews in Lewiston, Maine, During the ...
College Attendance Among Jews in Lewiston, Maine, During the ... College Attendance Among Jews in Lewiston, Maine, During the ...
for the future, in different ways. Jews were wealthier than others, and this most certainly made it easier for them to sacrifice the financial resources and the time for further education. However, family wealth did not make Jewish parents decide to send their children to college; they did so because of a mindset. This ethos of valuing post-secondary education was sparse among the general population in Lewiston during this time; it was a worldview that came from within the Jewish community. 14
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Freidenreich, David, and Desiree Shayer. “A Tale of Two <strong>College</strong>s: <strong>Jews</strong> and Ma<strong>in</strong>e’s Baptist<br />
Institutions dur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Interwar Years.” Presented at <strong>the</strong> annual meet<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>the</strong><br />
Association for Jewish Studies, Dec. 21, 2010. Colby’s Ma<strong>in</strong>e Jewish History Project<br />
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Goldman, Libby. Personal Interview. Conducted by David Freidenreich. Nov. 11, 2010.<br />
Jolovitz, Lester. Personal Interview. Conducted by Sam Lev<strong>in</strong>e. Jan. 10, 2010.<br />
Mayer, Susan L.. "Nurs<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> United States." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical<br />
Encyclopedia. 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. August 7, 2011<br />
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Morawska, Ewa T. Insecure Prosperity: Small-town <strong>Jews</strong> <strong>in</strong> Industrial America, 1890-1940.<br />
Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton, N.J: Pr<strong>in</strong>ceton University Press, 1996. Pr<strong>in</strong>t.<br />
Perlmann, Joel. Ethnic Differences: School<strong>in</strong>g and Social Structure <strong>Among</strong> <strong>the</strong> Irish, Italians,<br />
<strong>Jews</strong>, and Blacks <strong>in</strong> an American City, 1880-1935. Cambridge: Cambridge University<br />
Press, 1988. Pr<strong>in</strong>t.<br />
Weissbach, Lee S. Jewish Life <strong>in</strong> Small-Town America: A History. New Haven: Yale University<br />
Press, 2005. Pr<strong>in</strong>t.<br />
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