Documenting Maine Jewry : Remembering, Recording & Retelling

HELP US DOCUMENT THE JEWS OF MAINE

Pioneers      Visionaries      Entrepreneurs      Philanthropists

Gifts to the Maine Jewish History Project have enabled us to create
the largest repository of Maine Jewry data ever in one locale.

Donors may choose have their contributions
honor their own Maine immigrant family
or
to be dedicated to the inspiration of a future generation of Maine Jews.



The Maine Jewish History Project is under the financial supervision of The Jewish Community Alliance(Portland), a 501(c)3 organization. Donations are welcome using the Tzedakah box below or by sending a gift to the JCA, 57 Ashmont St. Portland, Maine 04103 (marked Documenting Old Maine Jewry) 207-772-1959. Major donors can select a range of contributions to honor their own Maine immigrant family or to inspire and inform the next generation of Maine Jews.

Those who extend financial support and donated documents enhance this exciting endeavor.
The following support levels are some of the ways that your gift can help.



Maine Minyan $10,000
Reviewing, coding, and proofing large unique collections of data on Maine Jewry (e.g. the 120,000 immigrant landing records in the Portland Harbor, the 5,000 naturalization papers in the US Federal Court, or the 1910 Federal Census of Maine)
Maine Macher $ 5,000
Collecting, scanning, uploading, and indexing five years of a old community newsletters or developing and reproducing a curriculum for B'nai Mitzvah on local Maine Jewish history
Bernard Osher Jewish Philanthropies Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
Maine Mishpohot $2,500
Recording, coding, and proofing information from aJewish cemetery or transferring the Facebook picture naming system to work on old Jewish community photograph
Jewish Community Endowment Association (Bangor)
Maine Mitzvot $1,800
Establishing a software linkage routine to exchange data with the JewishGen and other major on-line genealogical websites or to incorporate data from the Jewish Advocate and other Boston-based sources into the DOMJ database
Joe and Debbie Bornstein
Albert & Miriam Graddis including a Pfizer Foundation Matching Gift grant
Anne Schneider
David Krut Galleries (New York / Johannesburg )
Maine Magillah $1,000
Purchase of two traveling scanners to upload old private papers to the website or to fund two undergraduate research projects on smaller Maine Jewish communities or institutions
Barbara Blumenthal Stern
Harriet and Steve Passerman
Leonard, Richard, Robert, and Jonathan Slosberg, Sarah Erlick and Michael Rubinoff - in memory of Fannie and Percy Albling
Cindy Taylor
Maine Mensch $500
Designing and publishing a brochure and a standard logo for used by Jewish community newspapers in order to inform interested people about the resources available from the Maine Jewish History Project
Batyah (Bonnie) Ben-david and Kerry Ben-david -- in memory of Norman and Ethel Goldberg
David and Meryl Givner
Andrew and Linda Brenner
Stuart and Sharon Ruben - in memory of Max and Gladys Ruben
Cherva Kaddisha (Portland)
Maine Maven $250
Recording, coding, and proofing a additional synagogue memorial board or hosting a local community meeting on the resources available on www.mainejews.org and other Jewish websites
Lawrence and Barbara Cahn
Dorothy Bernstein Dubin
Annette and Robert Elowitch
Beth Hillson and Joel Reich
Elaine Kahaner -- in honor of Anne Schneider for her good work for children and adults with disabilities
and in honor of our twin grandsons, born June 16, Marcus Hunter Levin and Skylar Thomas Levin
Robert & Jacqueline Laskoff
George and Ruthanne Singal
Wilma and Steve Rose
Gary and Madelyn Venner
Maine Mazel $ 180
Providing research support to four Maine Jewish families learning about their own family history
Richard and Treasure Cohen
Lisa and Leon Gorman
Jeffrey and Betsy Hoos -- in memory of Harold and Esther Hoos
Karen Levine
Stephen A Novick
Joseph Paley
Philip Saperia
Phyllis Schultz & M Gromet
Mark & Carol Willis -- in honor of Rita Willis
Edward and Helen Wasserman


The Maine Jewish History Project is under the financial supervision of The Jewish Community Alliance(Portland), a 501(c)3 organization. Donations are welcome using the Tzedakah box on the homepage or by sending a gift to the JCA, 57 Ashmont St. Portland, Maine 04103 (marked Documenting Old Maine Jewry) 207-772-1959. Major donors can select a range of contributions to honor their own Maine immigrant family or to inspire and inform the next generation of Maine Jews.

Last Updated : June 1, 2008