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United States, Mount Hebron Cemetery

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136-02 64th Road, Flushing, NY 11367, USA
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Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in Flushing, Queens, New York City. 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. It is noted for its Yiddish theater section. About 217,000 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.

There is also 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." This is one of several such monuments in the cemetery.

A part of Mount Hebron Cemetery's block 67 is reserved for people who worked in New York City's Yiddish theater industry.

Notable burials

  • Vincent La Selva (1929-2017), American conductor and founder of the New York Grand Opera
  • 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
  • Max Bozyk (approx. 1899–1970), Yiddish theater actor
  • Reizl Bozyk (1914–1993), Yiddish theater actress
  • Paulina Lavitz Brav (1879-1959), Yiddish theater actress
  • Rabbi Chaim Noach Brevda (1914-1999), Rabbi, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn
  • 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
  • Misha Fishzon (1884–1949)
  • 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
  • Selig Grossinger (d. 12/18/1931), founder of Grossinger's, the famous Catskill Jewish resort. His wife and several descendants are also buried in the plot. He was part of the Balegroder Congregation burial society.
  • Herman Hupfeld (1894-1951), Broadway composer and writer of the song As Time Goes By
  • 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
  • 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
  • Robert Leonhardt (1873-1923), Austrian opera singer
  • Shifra Lerer (1915–2011), Yiddish theater actress
  • 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 (April 20 1897 – December 14, 1960), Yiddish theater and Hollywood actor and director
  • Jack Rechtzeit (1903–1988), Yiddish theater actor
  • 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
  • William I. Sirovich (1882–1939), U.S. congressman
  • Menasha Skulnik (1892–1970), Yiddish theater actor
  • Bertha Kalich Spachner (died 1874–1939), Yiddish theater actress
  • 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
  • One British Commonwealth war grave, of a private of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps of World War I
  • Ben Selvin (1898-1980), Jazz Musician

Sources: wikimapia.org

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