Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Sanford and Springvale.

Information is available on

66 individual Jews with strong ties to Sanford of which 22 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
5 burial records in Jewish cemeteries for which there are 8 headstone images
8 organizations important to the Sanford Jewish community and 7 are businesses important to the Sanford Jewish community
3 bibliographic citations and sources pertaining to Sanford of which 1 is a photograph

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

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