• Source: Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)

Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States. It was founded in 1903 as the Jewish section of Cedar Grove Cemetery, and occupies the vast majority of the grounds at Cedar Grove. The cemetery is on the former Spring Hill estate of colonial governor Cadwallader Colden. Mount Hebron is arranged in blocks, which are then split up into sections or society grounds. Sections were originally sold mainly to families or Jewish community groups such as landsmanshaftn, mutual aid societies, and burial societies. For instance, Mount Hebron is known for having a section reserved for people who worked in New York City's Yiddish theater industry. While this type of organization is common for American Jewish cemeteries, Mount Hebron has an especially diverse range of society grounds. About 226,000 people have been buried in Mount Hebron since it opened.
There is a large Workmen's Circle section in both Cedar Grove and Mount Hebron Cemetery, with about 12,000 burials of Jewish and non-Jewish members of the Workmen's Circle.
Mount Hebron also hosts a number of Holocaust memorials erected on society grounds by Jewish immigrants. For instance, there is a large monument erected by immigrants and descendants of immigrants from the city of Grodno in what is today western Belarus. The monument is dedicated "In memoriam to our dear parents, brothers and sisters of the city of Grodno and environs who were brutally persecuted and slain by the Nazis during World War II."




Notable burials


Celia Adler (1889–1979), Yiddish theater actress
Henrietta Jacobson Adler (1906–1988), Yiddish theater actress
Julius Adler (1906–1994), Yiddish theater actor
Jules Bender (1914–1982), college basketball star
Mina Bern (1911–2010), Yiddish theater actress
Ben Bernie (1891–1943), bandleader and radio personality
Reizl Bozyk (1914–1993), Yiddish theater actress
Paulina Lavitz Brav (1879–1959), Yiddish theater actress
Louis Buchalter (1897–1944), organized crime figure, boss of Murder, Inc.
Lillian Lux Burstein (1918–2005), Yiddish theater actress
Pesach'ke Burstein (1896–1986), Yiddish theater actor
Louis Cohen (1904–1939), mobster
Isidore Dollinger (1903–2000), New York State Senator and Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, and Bronx County District Attorney
Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990), writer
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), photojournalist
Shep Fields (1910–1981), bandleader
Louis D. Gibbs (1880–1929), lawyer, assemblyman, Bronx County Court judge, New York Supreme Court Justice
Jack Gilford (1908–1990) Broadway, film and television performer
Madeline Lee Gilford (1923–2008), film and stage actress, theatrical producer, wife of Jack Gilford
Jennie Goldstein (1896–1960), Yiddish theater actress
Adolph Held (1885–1969), New York City alderman, Forward editor and manager, labor activist
Max Jacobson (1900–1979), physician often known as Dr. Feelgood
Marvin Kaplan (1927–2016), actor
Nathan Kaplan (1891–1923), gangster
Alan King (1927–2004), comedian
Harry Kopp (1880–1943), lawyer and politician
Abraham Landau (1895–1935), mobster
Eddie Layton (1925–2004), organist for the New York Yankees
Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960), Yiddish theater actor
Fred Lebow (1932–1994), founder the New York City Marathon and president of the New York Road Runners Club
Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), initiator of the Genocide Convention
Shifra Lerer (1915–2011), Yiddish theater actress
Jeanne Manford (1920–2013), American teacher and LGBTQ+ activist
Menashe Oppenheim (1905–1973), Yiddish theater and film actor
Sam Paul (1874–1927), gambler, underworld figure, businessman, and political organizer
Jack Pearl (1894–1982), vaudeville performer and radio comedian
Nathan D. Perlman (1887–1952), U.S. congressman
Molly Picon Kalich (1898–1992), Yiddish theater actress
Gregory Ratoff (1893–1960), Yiddish theater and Hollywood actor and director
Morris D. Reiss (c. 1887–1949), lawyer and member of the New York State Assembly
Florika Remetier (1946-1979), Romanian-American musician and socialist feminist activist
Miriam Kressyn Rexite (1910–1996), Yiddish theater actress and singer
Seymour Rexite (1908–2002), Yiddish theater actor and singer
Solomon Schechter (1847–1915), Conservative Jewish theologian
Fred Schmertz (1888–1976), founder member of the Millrose Games and the meet director from 1934 to 1974
Maurice Schwartz (1891–1960), Yiddish theater actor
Ben Selvin (1898–1980), jazz musician
William I. Sirovich (1882–1939), U.S. congressman
Menasha Skulnik (1892–1970), Yiddish theater actor
Bertha Kalich Spachner (died 1874–1939), Yiddish theater actress
Fred Spira (1924–2007), photo industry executive, inventor, art and photography collector, historian
Thea Tewi (1902–1999), sculptor and lingerie designer
Bessie Thomashefsky (1873–1962), Yiddish theater actress
Boris Thomashevsky (1866–1939), Yiddish theater actor
Emanuel Weiss (1906–1944), organized crime figure, member of Murder, Inc., and associate of Louis Buchalter
Peter Wiernik (1865–1936), Yiddish journalist, newspaper editor, historian
One British Commonwealth war grave, of a private of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps of World War I




References






External links


Mount Hebron Cemetery website
Mount Hebron Cemetery at Find a Grave
List of societies that have plots at Mount Hebron Cemetery
New York Times Article Legal Dispute Grezinsky v. Mount Hebron Cemetery
New York Law Journal Legal Dispute Grezinsky v. Mount Hebron Cemetery

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