Keywords: Yiddish
Item 56926
Globe Yiddish Theater, Auburn, 1914
Contributed by: An individual through Colby College Special Collections Date: 1914 Location: Auburn Media: Photograph and ink
Item 54184
Mishna record book, Portland, 1901
Contributed by: Congregation Shaarey Tphiloh Date: 1901 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue
Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.
Exhibit
Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation
Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.
Site Page
"… could also hear German, Dutch, Albanian, Greek, Yiddish, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Danish, Polish, Russian and Italian."
Site Page
"… and records in New York, with 23 recordings of Yiddish, Israeli, Chassidic, Broadway, opera and pop music as of 2024. Alan B."
Story
Jennie Aranovitch - honoring family legacy and Jewish identity
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Her great-grandparents journey from Belarus through current day Jewish experience in Biddeford.
