Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Auburn, Greene, Lewiston, Lisbon, Lisbon Center, Lisbon Falls , Mechanic Falls and Poland.

Information is available on

4,918 individual Jews with strong ties to Lewiston Auburn area of which 969 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
909 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 958 headstone images
290 organizations important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community of which 77 are Jewish community institutions and 157 are businesses important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community
658 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Lewiston Auburn area of which 149 are photographs and 19 are oral histories

Census data is available for these years: 1880, 1900, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1930, 1930, 1936, 1936.

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