Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Cape Elizabeth, Falmouth, Falmouth Foreside, Portland, South Portland and Westbrook.

Information is available on

11,550 individual Jews with strong ties to Greater Portland of which 1,858 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
3,051 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 2,612 headstone images
719 organizations important to the Greater Portland Jewish community of which 223 are Jewish community institutions and 300 are businesses important to the Greater Portland Jewish community
4,210 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Greater Portland of which 1,474 are photographs and 200 are oral histories

Census data is available for these years: 1890, 1896, 1930, 1940, 1940, April 8 1908, April 9 1919, circa 2019, date not known, Dec 1980, May 26 1915, Sept 16, 1899.

The coordinator(s) of this site, Annette Elowitch, Judy Halpert, and Steve Hirshon, would welcome additional photographs, documents and oral histories sent to dmj@mindspring.com.