AUBURN:Androscoggin County http://www.rootsweb.com/~meandros/ has general Androscoggin County information. http://www.rootsweb.com/~meandrhs/auburn.html has Auburn information. [August 2005]
Temple Shalom (Conservative), 786-4201, 74 Bradman St., Auburn, Maine 04210, Temple Shalom: Wendy Rosov, 74 Bradman Street, Auburn, ME 04210, 207-786-4201, Conservative, temple6359@aol.com. http://www.to-get.com/synagogue/ [August 2005]
Beth Abraham Synagogue: Rabbi Martin Shorr, 35 Laurel Ave, Auburn, ME 04210, 207-783-1302. 119 Jewish population was 300 according to "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States", pp. 330-583 in American Jewish Year Book 5680 (September 25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920); Volume 21, edited by Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee and submitted by Alan Hirschfeld. Jim Marin, 1063 Beacon St. #6, P.O. Box 1555, Brookline, MA 10146 (617) 232-3937 possibly may have information.
Beth Israel Cemetery: Mt Hope Avenue. Tefereth Israel, Toldos Yitzchock, the "Old Cemetery" both sections of the "New" Beth Israel cemeteries and Achim Ahavas on Webster Avenue. 1,200 lots managed by Congregation Beth Israel. Source: http://uscj.org/neweng/bangor/geneology.html [August 2005]
Beth Israel Congregation Cemetery: http://www.bethisrael-maine.org/cemetery.shtml and http://www.bethisrael-maine.org/. http://www.bethisrael-maine.org/history.shtml has history. "The Synagogue controls and distributes the burial rights for the burial spaces located in the Jewish Cemetery even though the actual ownership of the land occupied by the Jewish Cemetery remains part of the Bath Municipal Cemetery and is owned by the City of Bath. ... The Jewish Cemetery consists of 96 burial spaces." 207-443-5181 [August 2005]
BIDDEFORD: York County http://www.raynorshyn.com/megenweb/york/ has general York County information. [August 2005]
Congregation Etz Chaim, 36 Bacon Street, Biddeford, ME 04005 (207) 284-5771 http://www.etzchaimme.org/. serves Biddeford and Sacco. Congregation Etz Chaim was founded in 1906 in a former Episcopal church on Bacon Street. e-mail mail@etzchaimme.org / [August 2005]
Mount Carmel Cemetery: off Hicks Street and maintained by the Shaarey Tphilloh Synagogue at 76 Noyes Street, Portland, Maine 04103. 207-773-0693. Records are very incomplete. Adjoins Mt. Sinai Cemetery #06901
Mount Sinai Cemetery: Maintained by the Shaarey Tphilloh Synagogue, 76 Noyes Street, Portland, Maine 04103. 207-773-0693. Records are very incomplete. Adjoins Mt. Carmel Cemetery. #06903 The numbers refer to further information in Cemeteries of the US, Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; submitted by: Al Rosenfield, Columbus OH; e-mail: arosen@ee.net
References from Renee Steinig rsteinig@suffolk.lib.ny.us [March 2001]: Cohen, Michael. Jerusalem of the North: an Analysis of Religious Modernization in Portland, Maine's Jewish community 1860-1950. 2000. (Brown University honors thesis. Copy available at the U of Maine.) Jordan, William B. Portland's Jewish Cemeteries. 1984. (Copy available at New England Historic Genealogical Society.) Band, Benjamin. Portland Jewry: Its Growth and Development. 1955.(Available at a number of research libraries.)
Smith Street Cemetery: Smith Street. Separate from the town of Portland, this is the oldest cemetery in the Greater Portland area. This tiny cemetery, just about the size of a small city house lot (75 x 150 or a little smaller), is fenced and kept locked. The wife of Rabbi Sky, who retired rabbi from Temple Beth El, fixed up the cemetery in the mid-1990s. Source: Anita Finn e-mail: alfmt@mixnet.commdesign.com. The records are held by the Jewish Federation of Southern Maine, 57 Ashmont St. Portland, ME USA 04103. Their telephone is 207-773-7254. Dates from around 1900. First Jewish burial ground in area.
Temple Beth El Memorial Park: run by Temple Beth El, 400 Deering Avenue, Portland, ME 04103 207-774-2649 (Conservative). I believe that in 1932 only one Jewish cemetery exists which the undertaker referred to as "Hebrew Cemetery". Source: Mark Chomey and Anita Finn via Gloria AULETTA Bailey, GJBailey@aol.com / http://www.templebethel-maine.org/ [August 2005]
Berliawsky-Small Cemetery: on Upper Park Street. The property is under the administration of the Rockland, Maine Chevra Kadisha. Source: Joel Fishman, head of the Rockland, Maine Chevra Kadisha; e-mail: bjf@midcoast.com (207) 594-9236 or Edward Miller (207) 594-4878. Adas Yeshuron Synagogue, Estelle Sassaman, P.O. Box 1250, Rockland, ME 04841, 207-832-7690, Unaffiliated. http://www.midcoast.com/~yoshuron/. UPDATE: "Berliawsky-Small Cemetery" will intern cremains, and there is a section in that cemetery which will accommodate the burial of Jewish people and their non-Jewish spouses and/or children. [August 2005]
SOUTH PORTLAND: see Portland
Congregation Bet Ha'am-207-879-0028. http://www.bethaam.org/
WATERVILLE: Kennebec County - See Augusta http://www.rootsweb.com/~mekenneb/ has general Kennebec County information. [August 2005]
Beth Israel Congregation, 291 Main St, Waterville, ME 04901-4916, (207) 872-7551. Reform. 1985 [August 2005]
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