{"id":845,"date":"2006-09-19T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T19:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:51:27","slug":"mccall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2006\/09\/19\/mccall\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy McCall &#039;08 researches Lewiston&#039;s Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/09\/mccall5365.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2006\/09\/mccall5365.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Timothy McCall &#039;08\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A visit to the local Jewish cemetery taught Timothy McCall &#8217;08 of Lawrenceville, N.J., a timeless lesson in history.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After spending the summer researching the livelihoods of Jewish merchants who arrived in Lewiston-Auburn in the 1870s, first from Germany and then from Eastern Europe, McCall decided to &#8220;fully connect with the community&#8221; by visiting the graves of individuals whose names he recognized from weeks of primary-source research.<\/p>\n<p>McCall, a double major in History and German, had been comparing the history of the Jewish community to the larger economic story of the twin cities of the Androscoggin. &#8220;The Jews were very much dependent on the mills for their livelihood and the solvency of their businesses,&#8221; McCall writes. As the area&#8217;s once thriving textile and shoe mills disappeared, so too did the Jewish community shrink. &#8220;For the Jewish merchants, the closures meant their loyal customers were without jobs and without disposable income.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x149640.xml\">Read more here.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visit to the local Jewish cemetery taught Timothy McCall &#8217;08 of Lawrenceville, N.J., a timeless lesson in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[2479,11003,10750,3831,4865,10830,11001,11648,10751],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-community","tag-europe","tag-german-russian-studies","tag-germany","tag-judaism","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-north-america","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-religious-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89923,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/89923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}