Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Old Town and Orono.

Information is available on

325 individual Jews with strong ties to Old Town - Orono of which 84 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
73 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 74 headstone images
45 organizations important to the Old Town - Orono Jewish community of which 8 are Jewish community institutions and 25 are businesses important to the Old Town - Orono Jewish community
80 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Old Town - Orono of which 33 are photographs

Census data is available for these years: 1910, 1930.

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