Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Calais and Eastport.

Information is available on

116 individual Jews with strong ties to Greater Calais of which 49 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
26 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 50 headstone images
18 organizations important to the Greater Calais Jewish community of which 7 are Jewish community institutions and 4 are businesses important to the Greater Calais Jewish community
48 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Greater Calais of which 18 are photographs

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

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