Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Belfast.

Three Generation of Hands - DMJ Logo, 1997

Information is available on

91 individual Jews with strong ties to Belfast of which 18 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
12 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 3 which have headstone images
7 organizations important to the Belfast Jewish community of which 2 are Jewish community institutions and 5 are businesses important to the Belfast Jewish community

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

The coordinator(s) of this site, Marsha Mendelson Rodman, would welcome additional photographs, documents and oral histories sent to dmj@mindspring.com.