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

5,255 individual Jews with strong ties to Lewiston Auburn area of which 1,173 record has the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
914 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 960 headstone images
289 organizations important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community of which 76 are Jewish community institutions and 157 are businesses important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community
666 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Lewiston Auburn area of which 141 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.