Index to Books

Appleton

• Carrying Water' book cover, Waterville 1997   Full book title: 'Carrying Water as a Way of Life / A homesteader's History' by Linda Tatelbaum    

Aroostook

• H. Etscovitz biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      

Auburn

• It's Not the Jewish Christmas a children's book by Norman Geller 1985      

Augusta

• Yankee Fiddler : A Man Called Suss" by Celia C Risen date not known   B S964r R MeColl (Portland Room)     - Harris Gleckman

Bangor

• Charlotte Rolnick Schwab, Sex, Lies, and Rabbis : Breaking a Sacred Trust , Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library date not known   Part One of a the book is a memoir of her growing up in Bangor    
• Ahawas Achim record book cover, Bangor, 1853 1853   Record book of Maine's first synagogue, Ahawas Achim, written in English, German, Yiddish    
• Yiddish book title page published in Russia in 1890 1890      
• Rabbi Mordecai Klatchko of Bangor, short bio 1933      

Bangor/Mt. Desert Island/Calais

• Crossing Lines: A record of the 1992-93 exhibit conceived by Judith S. Goldstein and organized by the University of Maine Museum of Art Part 1 of 3 1994      
• Crossing Lines: A record of the 1992-93 exhibit conceived by Judith S. Goldstein and organized by the University of Maine Museum of Art Part 3 of 3 1994      

Bath

• Leading Businessmen (Filenes) (1889) 2006      
• The World's Work (Filenes) (1914) 1979      
• The Filenes of Boston by Leon Harris (1979) 1998      
• Louise Nevelson biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Povich Family biography in Risen, <i> Jewels of Maine </i> 1997      
• The Filenes by George E. Berkley (1998) 1898      
• Filene's Complex Study Report 2006      

Lewiston-Auburn

• "A short walk around the pyramids Through the world of Art" by Philip Isaacson, book cover published in 1993      
• "The American Eagle" by Philip Issacson, book cover 1975      
• "These I Do Remember" - Gerda Schild Haas , book cover 1982      
• "Round Buildings, Square Buildings &amp;amp; Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish" by Philip Isaacson, book cover 1988      
• "Seeds of Sarah : Memories of a Survivor" by Judith Magyar Isaacson, cover 1990   I    
• "Memoirs of an Amateur Spy" by Irving Isaacson, cover 2001      

Maine

• Interlude I by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Tales of a Wayside Inn 1863 1863       - Harris Gleckman
• Interlude II by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Tales of a Wayside Inn 1863 1863       - Harris Gleckman
• The Spanish Jew's Tale; The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Tales of a Wayside Inn 1863 1863       - Harris Gleckman

Maine - statewide

• Directory of Churches and Religious Organizations in Maine, prepared by the Maine Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Works Projects Administration, July 1940,Portland, ME 1940      
• Celia C. Risen, Some Jewels of Maine : Jewish Maine Pioneers, Pittsburgh, PA Dorrance Pub Co 1997      
• Abraham J Peck and Jean M Peck, Maine's Jewish Heritage , Arcadia Publishing 3 March 2007      
• Abraham Peck and Jean Marcus Peck, Images of America : Maine's Jewish Heritage Winter 2006/2007       - Abraham Peck / Jean Marcus Peck
• Michael Hoberman How Strange It Seems : the Cultural Life In Small Town New England, University of Mass Press, Amherst, MA 2008   305.892 H653 / Includes Jews in Aroostook County, Augusta, Mars Hill, Old Town, Portland, Presque Isle, Rockland, and Skowhegan, Maine.    

Mount Desert Island

• Crossing Lines : Histories of Jews and Gentiles in Three Communities, by Judith Goldsmith - 2 large pdfs 1992      

Oakland

• Mindy Schneider, Not A Happy Camper, Grove Press, 2007, New York 2007   influenced by her years at Camp Modin    

Portland

• Constitution of the Portland Society for Promoting Christianity Among Jews with An Address to the Christian Public and a Collection of Interesting Facts Relative to the Conversion of the Jews : cover page 1823   pg 64 "The title page from an 1823 pamphlet distributed by a Portland organization urged the proselytizing of Jews in Portland although few, if any, Jews could be found in the city"    
• B'nai B'rith minute book Portland, 1874-80 1880      
• Illustration for 'The Spanish Jew's Tale,' ca. 1880 c. 1880      
• The Spanish Jew's Tale' illustration c. 1880      
• Anshe Sfard Chevra Kadisha recordbook 1890       - Susan Cummings-Lawrence
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter V Religious and Educational Life (pgs 19-23) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter VII Philanthropy and Social Life (pgs 32-42) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter I, Prelude (pgs 3-7) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter II The Pioneers (pgs 8-9) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter III Laying the Foundation (pgs 10-15) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter IV Branching Out 1880-1904 (pgs16-18) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter IX 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter VI Shaarey Tphiloh and Beyond (pgs 24-31) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter VIII 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter X New Social and Fraternal Groups (pgs 52-58) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter XI The Jewish Community Center (pgs 59-64) 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter XII 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter XIII 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter XIV 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter XV 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter XVI 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Chapter XVII 1955      
• Ben Band, Portland Jewry: Foreward, Preface and Introduction (pgs I - x) 1955      
• Portland Jewry: Its Growth and Development by Benjamin Band 1955      
• Portland Jewry: Its Growth and Development by Benjamin Band - Appendix 1955      
• Louis Bernstein biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Morris Sacknoff biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Death and Love in the Holocaust : The Story of Sonja and Kurt Messerschmidt 2013      

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Skowhegan

• Susman Russakoff Memoires
  edited and prepared for circulation by Ida Russakoff Hoos
  in honor of Susman Russakoff and
  his Eightieth Birthday Dec 19, 1965      
• Sussman Russakoff biography in Risen, &lt;i&gt;Jewels of Maine&lt;/i&gt; 1997      

to be determined

• Earning a Living in Maine biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Fred & Sara Sterns biography in Risen, <i>Jewels of Maine</i> 1997      
• Harry and Leah Day biography in Risen, &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Jewels of Maine&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; 1997      
• Hyman Norkin biography in Risen, <i>Jewels of Maine</i> 1997      
• James Albert Abramson biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Rabbi David Berent biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Sam Isaacson biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Sam Slosberg biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• Singer Robinson family biography in Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997      
• The Peddlers (introduction) to Risen, Jewels of Maine 1997