Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Dixfield, Rumford, Rumford Falls and Mexico.

Nine Children in front of Bimah at Temple Israel Rumford, 1952 circa

forthcoming

Information is available on

202 individual Jews with strong ties to Rumford of which 51 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
39 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 22 which have headstone images
7 organizations important to the Rumford Jewish community of which 1 is a Jewish community institution and 4 are businesses important to the Rumford Jewish community
26 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Rumford of which 6 are photographs and 2 are oral histories

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

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