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

5,269 individual Jews with strong ties to Lewiston Auburn area of which 1,185 record has the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
914 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 960 headstone images
291 organizations important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community of which 76 are Jewish community institutions and 159 are businesses important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community
853 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Lewiston Auburn area of which 294 are photographs and 20 are oral histories

Census data is available for these years: 1880, 1880, 1900, 1900, 1900, 1900, 1900, 1910, 1910, 1910, 1920, 1920, 1930, 1930, 1930, 1936, 1936, 1940, 1940.

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