Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Augusta, Belgrade, Gardiner, Hallowell, Litchfield, Sidney, Winthrop and and Woolwich.

Information is available on

859 individual Jews with strong ties to Greater Augusta of which 139 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
173 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 98 headstone images
93 organizations important to the Greater Augusta Jewish community of which 29 are Jewish community institutions and 17 are businesses important to the Greater Augusta Jewish community
263 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Greater Augusta of which 58 are photographs and 10 are oral histories

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

The coordinator(s) of this site, Rabbi Erica Ashe and Nanette Salvino, would welcome additional photographs, documents and oral histories sent to dmj@mindspring.com.