Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

This section of the Documenting Maine Jewry project has information on the communities of Skowhegan.

Russakoff Jewelers, date not known

Information is available on

53 individual Jews with strong ties to Skowhegan of which 15 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
21 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 10 which have headstone images
12 organizations important to the Skowhegan Jewish community and 8 are businesses important to the Skowhegan Jewish community
of which 9 are oral histories

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

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