Short Jewish History
Information is available on
- 1,166 individual Jews with strong ties to Greater Waterville of which 244 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
- 212 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 92 which have headstone images
- 106 organizations important to the Greater Waterville Jewish community of which 24 are Jewish community institutions and 42 are businesses important to the Greater Waterville Jewish community
- 761 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Greater Waterville of which 323 are photographs and 33 are oral histories
Census data is available for these years: 1870, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940.
Wiki Page
The coordinator(s) of this site, Peter and Joan Beckerman of Waterville and David Friedenreich at Colby College.,
would welcome additional photographs, documents and oral histories sent to dmj@mindspring.com.