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.

Current Jewish Organizations

New Bet Ha'am Synagogue at Night, 2009

Search for Greater Portland People

Short Jewish History

see Ben Band's <a href='ToC-BenBand.php'> Portland Jewry : Its Growth and Development </a>

Information is available on

11,558 individual Jews with strong ties to Greater Portland of which 1,859 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
3,278 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 1,748 which have headstone images
734 organizations important to the Greater Portland Jewish community of which 223 are Jewish community institutions and 315 are businesses important to the Greater Portland Jewish community
4,051 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Greater Portland of which 1,385 are photographs and 200 are oral histories

Census data is available for these years: 1890, 1896, 1930, 1940, 1940, circa 2019, date not known.

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.