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The East End & Munjoy Hill

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Photo: Maine Jewish Museum, entrance from Congress St., and gardens
Source: Courtesy of the Maine Jewish Museum
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Photo: A view of the interior of Etz Chaim Synagogue today
Source: Courtesy of the Maine Jewish Museum
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Photo: 1924: Michael Rubinsky et al shops and apartments on Congress St. in front of Etz Chaim synagogue. The brick building to the left is still there today: a bookstore and apartments above.
Source: City of Portland. (1924). 267-271 Congress Street, Portland, 1924 [Portland Tax Record]. Planning and Development, Portland, Maine. https://www.mainememory.net/record/38164/image/47006
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Photo: Etz Chaim in 1941. The photo was taken for the Press Herald on the occasion of the dedication of its new entrance and garden in front.
Source: Courtesy ofCourtesy of Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives. https://www.pressherald.com/2014/04/14/portlands-etz-chaim-synagogue-flashback/ Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives and https://www.pressherald.com/2014/04/14/portlands-etz-chaim-synagogue-flashback/
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Photo: Boys lining up outside the North School in September,1911.
Source: MHS: https://www.mainememory.net/record/10387
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Photo: Class 5 attendance records from the North School in 1912. Note that all the Jewish students are marked absent on the Jewish High Holy Days
Source: Maine Historical Society: North School Records, 1912. Photo by Riva Krut
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Photo: The North School, c.1900
Source: North School, Portland, ca. 1900, MHS, https://www.mainememory.net/record/19314
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Photo: Shaarey Tphiloh Building Association Record Book ("Hebrew Synagogue Building Assn"), 1902. The records are in Yiddish, the language spoken by immigrant Jews of this generation.
Source: Etz Chaim: https://www.mainememory.net/record/53999
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Photo: An external view of Shaarey Tphiloh Synagogue on Newbury Street in 2025. The building is now condos.
Source: Photo by Riva Krut
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Photo: An external view of Shaarey Tphiloh in 1911.
Source: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection https://www.mainememory.net/record/76
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Photo: The outside of 23 Hampshire Street in 2025.
Source: Photo by Riva Krut
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Photo: The outside of 23 Hampshire Street in 1924.
Source: 21-23 Hampshire Street, Portland, 1924, City of Portland, [Portland Tax Record]. Planning and Development, Portland, Maine. https://www.mainememory.net/record/57419/image/57767
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Photo: 80 Vesper Street in 1924.
Source: 80 Vesper Street, Portland, 1924, City of Portland, [Portland Tax Record]. Planning and Development, Portland Maine: https://www.mainememory.net/record/96633/image/96665
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Photo: 80 Vesper Street in 2025.
Source: Photo by Riva Krut
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Photo: House Island in Casco Bay Maine, viewed from the Eastern Promenade
Source: https://pmwht.org/places/munjoy-hill/m04-house-island.html
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Photo: House Island in Casco Bay, showing the ruins of some of the fortifications
Source: https://pmwht.org/places/munjoy-hill/m04-house-island.html
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Photo: Jacob Cousins Post + Jewish War Memorial on Eastern Promenade in Winter 2025
Source: Photo by Riva Krut
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Photo: Group photo from 1932 at the 3rd Annual Dinner of the Jewish Home for Aged. 150 Maine Jews attended. The Ladies' Auxilliary made a donation of $500.
Source: Portland Press Herald, Mon, Jun 27, 1932 ·Page 18, https://mainejews.org/photo.php?photoid=1548
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Photo: Men and women enjoying summer in the gardens at the Jewish Home for Aged in the 1930s.
Source: Thanks to Cedars, Portland, for the photo. See https://mainejews.org/photo.php?photoid=1539
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Photo: The Jewish Home for Aged building on Sept. 15,1929 - opening day
Source: Portland Press Herald Sept 15, 1929 p18

Middle & Fore Street Businesses

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Photo: The Abraham Levey Block in 2025, which is now home to Eventide Oyster Co.
Source: Riva Kurt photo
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Photo: The Abraham Levey Commercial Block in 1924
Source: 72-88 Middle Street, Portland, 1924, [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine: https://www.mainememory.net/record/63256/image/63529
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Photo: Interior of Model Foods Market, with proprietors Saul Goldberg (left) and Myer Goldberg (right) in his signature leather apron, in 1972.
Source: "Model Foods Market, 1972" (1972). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 8. https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/8
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Photo: The Abraham Robinson Block in 2025.
Source: Riva Kurt photo
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Photo: The Abraham Robinson Block in 1924
Source: Portland, 1924 [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine
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Photo: The former Zeitman's Grocery Store, now home to Dock Fore, in 2025
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: Zeitman's Store and Lodging House 1924
Source: 336-338 Fore Street, Portland, 1924, [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine: https://www.mainememory.net/record/53809/image/54013
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Photo: An external view of Zeitmans Grocery Store in 1980, and inside with Jack Zeitman at the counter
Source: Photo provided by Blake Zeitman and used with permission
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Photo: The Curtis Building in 1924.
Source: 287-289 Fore Street, Portland, 1924 [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine: https://www.mainememory.net/record/53797/image/53930

Downtown

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Photo: The Cumberland Club in 2025.
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: The Marlborough Apartments today, in 2025
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: Hiram Abrams headstone at Smith St Cemetery
Source: Documenting Maine Jewry Cemetery image: https://mainejews.org/headstone.php?path=SS/GRP1/00000046.JPG
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Photo: The Marlborough Apartments in 1924
Source: 180-188 High Street, Portland, 1924 [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine: https://www.mainememory.net/record/58075/image/59092
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Photo: The Pythian Club Lodge Hall in 1924, which was converted into the JCC
Source: 337-341 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924 [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine https://www.mainememory.net/record/42929/image/43047
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Photo: The JCC Building in 2025, now condos
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: The Preble Street Teen Shelter in 2025, at the corner Cumberland Avenue and Preble Street.
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: The Preble Street Teen Center in 2025
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: The building at 345 Cumberland Ave in 1924 was owned by the Androscoggin Electric Company.
Source: 343-345 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924. [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine, https://www.mainememory.net/record/42930/image/43067
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Photo: A plaque in Abromson Plaza in 1984 honoring Linda Abromson
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: Portland City Hall, viewed from the front
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: The Movies co-owner Steve Halpert at the ticket counter and concession desk in 2005
Source: Portland Press Herald/ John Patriquin/Staff Photographer

Woodfords, Deering & Beyond

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Photo: The entrance to the Princeton on Back Cove apartments in the 2020s, formerly the Forest Park Apartments
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: The stained glass "creation" windowns in TBE's interior lobby
Source: DMJ: https://mainejews.org/photo.php?photoid=9205 Thank you to Nancy O'Neil and Jon Bonjour for the photo
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Photo: TBE exterior view and sign including Levey Day School and Shaarey Tphiloh
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: Levey Day School students in class in the 2020s
Source: https://www.leveydayschool.org/
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Photo: The Levey Day School student council in the 2020s
Source: https://www.leveydayschool.org/
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Photo: An interior view of Shaarey Tphiloh on Noyes Street in the 1980s.
Source: Shaarey Tphiloh
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Photo: All the local Jewish congregations helped carry the Torahs from their former Noyes Street location to their new home on the TBE campus. Pictured (center) are Rabbi Braun of TBE and (right) Rabbi Sruli Dresdner of Temple Shalom in Auburn.
Source: Portland Press Herald: https://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/21/congregation-shaarey-tphiloh-moves-to-new-home-at-temple-beth-el-in-portland/
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Photo: An external view of Shaarey Tphiloh in its new premises on Noyes Street in 1954.
Source: Shaarey Tphiloh
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Photo: The old T.A. Huston & Co Bakers of Better Biscuits building at 314 Forest Avenue, now the USM Glickman Family Library
Source: 314 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924. [Portland Tax Record], Planning and Development, Portland, Maine: https://www.mainememory.net/record/54504/image/54992
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Photo: The Casco Bay Tummlers, based in Portland, Maine, have been performing klezmer music since 1988. Their papers are stored in the Sampson Center Judaica Collection.
Source: Photo at: https://cascobaytummlers.com/
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Photo: Members of Am Chofshi (A Free People) marching in a 1990 Gay Pride parade in Portland. The Am Chofshi Archives is stored at the Sampson Center LGBTQ+ Collection
Source: Am Chofshi gay pride, Portland, 1990. Am Chofshi Archives, LGBTQ+ Collection, Contributed to Maine Memory Network by USM Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine. https://www.mainememory.net/record/52664
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Photo: Osher Map Library exterior view
Source: https://usm.maine.edu/osher-map-library/
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Photo: The first modern printed map. Map of Palestine, 1475 oriented with East at the top of the page, and featuring the walled city of Jerusalem in the center and illustrations of biblical scenes
Source: Osher Map Collection: https://cdn1.historyit.com/iiif/2/5f34291499c4a6.60628694/6408e94e259861.76208593.jpg/full/6481,/0/default.jpg
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Photo: OLLI logo 2025
Source: https://usm.maine.edu/osher-lifelong-learning-institute/news-publications/
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Photo: Chabad Jewish Center opening dedicated to Burt Shavitz of Burt's bees
Source: https://crownheights.info/shlichus/511967/maine-chabad-house-dedicated-to-burts-bees-founder/
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Photo: JCA Nursery School Playground
Source: https://www.mainejewish.org/
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Photo: An exterior view of the Jewish Community Alliance in 2025
Source: Riva Krut photo
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Photo: Diapers packed for distribution by JCA diaper bank volunteers in 2022
Source: https://www.mainejewish.org/
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Photo: An exterior view of the entrance to Congregation Bet Ha'am in South Portland.
Source: https://www.bethaam.org/
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Photo: An exterior view of Congregation Bet Ha'am at night.
Source: https://www.bethaam.org/

Jewish Cemeteries

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Photo: The view of Temple Beth El Memorial Park is more like a park than a cemetery, as the headstones are set into the ground.
Source: Temple Beth El
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Photo: Temple Beth El Memorial Park Entrance Sign
Source: Temple Beth El