Anti-Semitism in Maine

Holocaust Memorial - Mt Abraham Cemetery (Auburn)

Beth El (Augusta) Descrated by a Swaztike and Seig Heil 1960

ADL

• Anti-Semitism in the United States in 1947, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith 1956 (Maine)

Anti-semitic Publication

• Authorities Urged to Ban Anti-semitic Publication from Mail Dec 9, 1952
• Anti-semitic Publication Distributed in Maine Senatorial Primaries June 22, 1954 (Portland)

Anti-semitism

• an anti Semitic incident in 1893. 2 Feb 1893
• "Times Were Different", transcript of interview with Mel Fineberg 2015 (Portland)

Assault And Battery

• A Collection of 203 articles from the Bath Independent date not known (Bath)
• Account of a trial of two young boys in Cape Elizabeth who were acquitted of assaulting a pair of Jewish peddlers and trying to steal their goods. Nov 2 1893

Church Appeals

• Christian Groups Protest Dissemination of Anti-semitic Paper June 29, 1954 (Portland)

College

• Fraternity Bias Attacked at Bowdoin College Commencement Exercises 20 June 1955 (Brunswick)

Discrimination In Hotels

• Noted Maine Summer Resort Admits Jews Not Welcome July 9, 1931 (Bridgeport, CT)
• Anti-jewish Discrimination Widespread Among Summer Resorts in Maine July 21, 1938
• American Jewish Congress Charges Some Maine Hotels with Practicing Discrimination Aug 27, 1951 (to be determined)
• Maine Doctors Switch Convention Site in Blow at Discrimination Aug 30, 1954 (Kennebunkport)
• Maine Resorts Practice Discrimination; State Losses Revenue 1954 (Augusta)
• Urging Support of Projected Maine Bill to Act Against Private Club Discrimination Jan 8, 1969 (Portland)
• Discrimination in Vacationland 06/13/11 (Poland)

Farmers

• Farmers' Groups Ruined by Ford's Anti-Jewish Campaign, Sapiro says " 04/08/1927

Food Regulations

• News Brief : A dispute over umbrella ads for kosher hot dogs may soon hit the U.S. courts. 7 Feb 2003
• News Brief : A U.S. judge ruled that a Maine restaurant must comply with a local town code and remove table umbrellas advertising Hebrew National hot dogs. 11 March 2003

Graffiti

• Police Investigate Hateful Graffiti by Joshua Weinstein 2001 (Portland)

Hate Symbols

• Show of unity against symbols of hate date not known (Augusta)

Ku Klux Klan

• Ku Klux Klan march date not known (to be determined)

Memorial Headstone

• Holocaust Memorial - Mt Abraham Cemetery, Auburn date not known

Not Yet Classified

• 1892 Exchange on the role of Jewish peddlers between the Le Messager, a French language newspaper in Lewiston, and Solomon Robitschek, a Jewish Lewiston resident - - English translation April 1892 (Lewiston)

Not Yet Classified

• Ku Klux Klan Procession 1923 c (Portland)
• Ku Klux Klan, East Hodgdon 1923 (Aroostook)
• Ku Klux Klan field day, Portland 1926 (Portland)

Not Yet Classified

• Anti-semitic Publication Distributed in Maine Senatorial Primaries 6/22/1954 (Portland)
• Anti-semitic Publication Distributed in Maine Senatorial Primaries 6/22/1954 (Portland)
• Anti-jewish Discrimination Widespread Among Summer Resorts in Maine 7/21/1958 (Portland)
• Anti-Semitic, racist graffiti reported in Portland 5/8/2001 (Portland)
• Anti-Semitic, racist graffiti reported in Portland 5/8/2001 (Portland)
• Anti-Semitic vandals in Maine 8/5/2008 (Rangeley)
• Anti-Semitic vandals in Maine 8/5/2008 (Rangeley)
• Anti-Semitism -1 : Introduction to audio interviews 2013 (Portland)

Race War

• Bangor 'Race War' Spawned Jewish Immigrant Leaders By Wayne Reilly, BANGOR DAILY NEWS 12/01/2008 1908 (Bangor)

Sermon

• Anti-Semitism sermon title rankles Maine Jews 5-Feb-07 (Portland)

Summer Hotels

• Amy Eklund, "Jews in Vacationland" , paper prepared for Colby Jan 2011 course 2011 (Waterville)

Unwelcome Conversion Efforts

• 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 (Portland)

Vandalism

• Jewish Advocate -- Bath Me News1940-09-13 (2) 9/13/1940 (Bath )
• Beth El (Augusta) Desecrated By A Swaztika and Seig Heil 1960 (Augusta)
• News Brief : Vandals drew swastikas and a hate message at a synagogue in Presque Isle, Maine, before Rosh Hashanah. 24 Sept 1998 ( Presque Isle)
• Glick Property in Western Maine vandalized in an apparent hate crime Aug 6 2008 (Round Pond, Rangeley)