Creation of a Community
The people of South Portland
Eastern European and Sephardic Jews moved to Portland at the turn of the 20th Century.

As Told By...
Polina Olsen
Website: Polina Olsen's Books
Polina Olsen is a freelance writer and author of Stories From Jewish Portland, Portland in the 1960s: Stories From the Counterculture and other books on local history. She lives in Portland with her husband, Andy, and cats Baba Ganoush and Koshka.