Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Old Orchard Beach and OOB.

Information is available on

56 individual Jews with strong ties to Old Orchard Beach of which 9 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
7 records of burial in Jewish cemeteries
17 organizations important to the Old Orchard Beach Jewish community of which 2 are Jewish community institutions and 13 are businesses important to the Old Orchard Beach Jewish community
128 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Old Orchard Beach of which 68 are photographs and 1 is a oral history

Census data is available for these years: 1930, 1940.

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