Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Ellsworth, Amherst, Aurora, Bar Harbor, Blue Hill, Brooklin, Brooksvile, Bucksport, Castine, Cranberry Isles, Dedham, Deer Isle, Eastbrook, Franklin, Frenchboro, Gouldsboro, Great Pond, Hancock, Lamoine, Mariaville, Mount Desert, Orland, Osborn, Otis, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Sorrento, Southwest Harbor, Stonington, Sullivan, Surry, Swans Island, Tremont, Trenton, Verona, Waltham and Winter Harbor.

Current Jewish Organizations

Three Generation of Hands - DMJ Logo, 1997

Search for Hancock County People

Information is available on

142 individual Jews with strong ties to Hancock County of which 39 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
17 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 9 which have headstone images
2 organizations important to the Hancock County Jewish community and 1 is a business important to the Hancock County Jewish community

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