Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Bangor, Brewer, Hampden and Veazie.

Information is available on

4,832 individual Jews with strong ties to Greater Bangor of which 898 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
1,408 burial record in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 1,643 headstone image
424 organizations important to the Greater Bangor Jewish community of which 132 are Jewish community institutions and 195 are businesses important to the Greater Bangor Jewish community
1,671 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Greater Bangor of which 529 are photographs and 81 are oral histories

Census data is available for these years: 1850, 1930, date not known.

The coordinator(s) of this site, Marcia Lieberman, Ruthanne Singal and Judy Gatchell, would welcome additional photographs, documents and oral histories sent to dmj@mindspring.com.