Maine Jewish Geneological Resource
The [red]Documenting Maine Jewry project (www.MaineJews.org) [/red]collects short histories on the many of these individuals and organizations which have made a contribution to the Jewish history of Maine and uploads this information up on the web. Since the 1800s, there have been Jewish communities in Maine in and aroundAuburn/Lewiston,Augusta, Biddeford/Saco, Bangor, Rockland, Portland and Waterville. Individual Jews also lived in many small towns and villages throughout the State.
This project, sponsored by the Jewish Community Alliance of Maine, has information on over 25,000 Jews with strong Maine ties and information on 180 Maine Jewish community or religious organizations. Our on-line cemetery data files now have information on over 6500 burials. Of these burial records, 1400 now also have headstone images on-line. In addition there are scanned documents and photography from community organizations in Auburn, Old Town, Portland, and Bangor.
There is open access to all the burial records. Registration is needed to access and update the remainder of the records.
Recent additions to the database include
May 2009
o Hebrew School Spelling Award Ceremony (Bangor) 1947
o Community Center Seder (Bangor) 1947 c
o Recollection of Rita Weisberg (Portland) as presented at Temple Beth El November 2004
o Temple Beth El 1954 Newsletter (Portland)
o Jewish Community Center Bulletins for 1946, 1948, and 1954(Portland)
o Girl Scouts at Jewish Community Center (Portland) 1945(Portland)
o additional information on the Weisberg, Turitz, Lewis, Goldberg, and Dion families
April 2009
o Recollection of Solomon Crasnick (Portland) by his daughter Elaine Kahaner
o Recollection of Phil and Bertha Rudek (Portland) by their daughter Cynthia Rudek Pedlikin
o Shenson & Jolovitz grocery store (Waterville), circa 1915
o baseball team at the Jewish Community Center (Portland), 1963
o sport team at the Jewish Community Center (Portland), circa 1960
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