Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Acton, Alfred, Arundel, Biddeford, Dayton, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Ogunquit, Saco and Wells.

Information is available on

1,004 individual Jews with strong ties to Greater Biddeford of which 330 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
205 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 181 headstone images
51 organizations important to the Greater Biddeford Jewish community of which 6 are Jewish community institutions and 35 are businesses important to the Greater Biddeford Jewish community
206 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Greater Biddeford of which 38 are photographs and 4 are oral histories

Census data is available for these years: 1910, 1910, 1920, 1920, 1930, 1930, 1940.

The coordinator(s) of this site, Jennie Aranovitch and Beth Strassler., would welcome additional photographs, documents and oral histories sent to dmj@mindspring.com.