Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)

Mount Hebron Cemetery

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Details
Established	1909
Location	Flushing, New York
Country	USA
Type	Jewish
Website	Mount Hebron Cemetery

Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City. It was founded in 1903 as the Jewish section of Cedar Grove Cemetery. The cemetery occupies the former Spring Hill estate of colonial governor Cadwallader Colden. It is noted for its Yiddish theater section.

There is a large "Workmen's Circle" section in both Cedar Grove and Mount Hebron Cemetery. There are roughly 12,000 burials from 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." [1]. 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

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

• Celia Adler (1889-1979), Yiddish theater actress
• Henrietta Jacobson Adler (1906-1988), Yiddish theater actress
• Julius Adler (1906-1994), Yiddish theater actor
• Ben Bernie (1891-1943), bandleader and radio personality
• Reizl Bozyk (1914-1993), 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
• Sergei Dovlatov (1941-1990), writer
• Shep Fields (1910-1981), band leader
• Misha Fishzon (1884-1949)
• Jack Gilford (1908-1990) Broadway, film and television performer
• Selig Grossinger (d. 12/18/1931). He is the founder of the famous Catskill Jewish resort, Grossinger's. He, his wife, and several descendants are buried in a family plot here. He was part of the Balegroder Congregation burial society.[2]
• Alan King (1927-2004), comedian
• Aaron Lebedeff, actor (died 1960)
• Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959), initiator of the Genocide Convention
• Shifra Lerer (1915-2011), Yiddish theater actress
• Menashe Oppenheim (1905-1973), Yiddish theater and film actor
• Molly Picon Kalish (1898-1992), Yiddish theater actress
• Jack Pearl (1894-1982), vaudeville performer and radio comedian
• 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
• Menasha Skulnik (1892-1970), Yiddish theater actor
• Bertha Kalich Spachner (died 1939), Yiddish theater actress
• Maurice Schwartz (1891-1960), Yiddish theater actor
• Boris Thomashevsky (1866-1939), Yiddish Theater actor
• Bessie Thomashefsky (1873-1962), Yiddish theater actress
• One British Commonwealth war grave, of a Private of the Canadian Army Medical Corps of World War I.

External links

• Mount Hebron Cemetery website

• Jeff Gottlieb, Queens Jewish Heritage Trail, Published by Queens Jewish Historical Society, Spring 2007
• "Historian Jeff Gottlieb Creates 'Jewish Heritage Trail' In Queens", by John Toscano, The Queens Gazette, May 29, 2002
• For boro, such a trail Jewish heritage map to be light & serious, by Donald Bertrand, Daily News, May 26, 2002
• [3] CWGC casualty record.