Maine's Yiddish speaking folks from Greater Portland

B'nai B'rith Records

• B'nai B'rith Cumberland Lodge no 1137 - minutes 1946-1960 (Portland)

Biography And Autobiography

• Drees Family in Russia - photograph circa 1910 (Portland)
• Susan Most collection circa 1973 - 2000 (Portland)
• Greta Sulkowitch Miller - autobiography April 12 1999 (Portland)
• Mark Baum : Toward Certainity Sept 12, 2019-Nov 1 2019 (Portland)

Business Records

• Samuel I Cinamon - business record 1935 - 1982 (Portland)

Business Records

• Samuel J Cohen and family - business records 1920 - 1983 (Portland)

Cemetery-related

• Mt Sinai Cemetery paper 1946 - 1999 (Portland)
• Smith St Cemetery veterans burials by Susan Cummings-Lawrence circa 2000 (Portland)

Congregational Records

• Bas Hachnesses Anshe Sfaard - mortgage deed and related paperwork (Portland)
• Bas Hachnesses Anshe Sfaard (Portland) circa 1940 (Portland)
• "Bet Ha'am congregational profile " by Barbara Riegelhaupt circa 2000 (Portland)

Local History

• Jewish Community Center - Bar Mitzvah week scrapbook 1952 (Portland)

Mikva

• Plans for a Mikvak behind Shaarey Tphiloh circa 1960 (Portland)

Not Yet Classified

• Jewish Welfare Board and the United War Work Campaign 1918 (Portland)
• Yiddish Mock Trial May 16, 1923
• Mt Carmel Cemetery Association Record Books 1913-1946 (Portland)
• Survey of Jewish Education, Portland, Me by Alexander Sissel Kohanski 1948 (Portland)
• Jewish Community Center (Portland) record 1938-1968 (Portland)

Vaad Hoir

• Vaad Hoir March 1950 Passover letter to community 1950 (Portland)
• Vaad Hoir, Passover appeal letter (Mo-os Chitim) 1950 (Portland)

Yiddish Election Ballot

• Mt Sinai Election Ballot : Yiddish and English 1915 circa (Portland)

Yiddish Letters And Notes

• Yiddish note dated Jan 2 Store receipts - back date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note dated Jan 2 Store receipts -front date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note on Buy-Cash-Margin page- back date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note on Buy-Cash-Margin page- front date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note on First Portland National Bank letterhead - back date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note on First Portland National Bank letterhead - back side 2 date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note on First Portland National Bank letterhead - front date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note on Worcester Salt letterhead - back date not known (Portland)
• Yiddish note on Worcester Salt letterhead - front date not known (Portland)
• Letters from David Rudofsky in Yiddish 1898-1912 (Portland)
• Max Louis Pinansky papers 1925-1945 (Portland)

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Yiddish Theater

• Pinkas [record book] to the Chevra Mishnayot of Portland, Me that was organized on Shimini Atzeret in the year of 5666 By Israel Moshe son of Shlomo Block (original in Yiddish) 1902
• State Street Traditional Jazz Band of Portland circa 2018 (Portland)

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