Introduction - Documenting Maine Jewry

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

Burton Cook as baby, March 8, 1928

Information is available on

57 individual Jews with strong ties to Sanford of which 17 records have the Old Country origin of first-generation immigrants
3 burial records in Jewish cemeteries, including 2 which have headstone images
8 organizations important to the Sanford Jewish community and 7 are businesses important to the Sanford Jewish community
of which 1 is a oral history

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