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

5,273 individual Jews with strong ties to Lewiston Auburn area of which 1,185 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
913 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 957 headstone images
291 organizations important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community of which 77 are Jewish community institutions and 158 are businesses important to the Lewiston Auburn area Jewish community
863 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Lewiston Auburn area of which 265 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.