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Montefiore Cemetery

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{{Short description|Jewish cemetery in Queens, New York}}

{{Infobox Cemetery

|name = Montefiore Cemetery (registered as Springfield L. I. Cemetery Society)

|image = Montefiore Cemetery aerial 2021.jpg

|imagesize =

|caption = Aerial view in 2021

|established = 1908[http://montefiorecemetery.org Montefiores homepage]

|country =

|location = 121-83 Springfield Boulevard
Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York

|coordinates = {{coord|40|41|09|N|73|44|30|W|source:GNIS|display=inline,title}}

|map_type = New York City#New York

|type = Jewish

|owner = Springfield L.I. Cemetery Society

|size =

|graves = >160,000

|website = [http://montefiorecemetery.org/ montefiorecemetery.org]

|findagraveid= 65292

|politicalgeo = NY/QU-buried.html#cms04319

}}

Montefiore Cemetery, also known as Old Montefiore Cemetery, is a Jewish cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York, established in 1908. The cemetery is called by several names, including Old Montefiore, Springfield, or less commonly, just Montefiore. More than 150,000 have been buried there.

The Shomrim Society, the fraternal society of Jewish officers in the New York City Police Department, has a burial plot for their members in Montefiore Cemetery, and it contains a large granite obelisk erected in 1949.{{cite news|title=Shaft to Honor Police Dead|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/09/25/93547240.html?pageNumber=49|access-date=May 13, 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=September 25, 1949|page=49}}

Notable burials

  • Hyman Amberg (1902–1926), mobsterWilson, pp. 18–19.
  • Joseph C. Amberg ({{circa|1902}}–1926), mobster
  • Louis Amberg (1898–1935), mobster{{cite news|title=Louis Amberg Buried – No Ceremony Held for Gangster – Hunt for Slayer Pressed|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/10/25/93496180.html?pageNumber=17|access-date=September 23, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 25, 1935|page=17}}
  • Abraham Coralnik (1883–1937), writer and newspaper editor{{cite news|title=Coralnik Services Attended by Many – Associate Editor of the Jewish Day Is Eulogized by Dr. Samuel Margoshes|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/07/19/archives/coralnik-services-attended-by-many-associate-editor-of-the-jewish.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 19, 1937 |page=16 |access-date=May 12, 2023}}{{cite web |title=Montefiore Cemetery – Locator |url=http://montefiorecemetery.org/search/?x=30&y=18&fname=abraham&lname=coralnick&dob_month=&dob_year=&page=1&view=1 |website=Montefiore Cemetery |access-date=May 12, 2023}}
  • Al "Bummy" Davis (1920–1945), boxer[http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/relatives-and-friends-gather-in-montefiore-cemetery-in-news-photo/97349396 Getty Images]
  • Herb Edelman (1933–1996), actorWilson, p. 219.
  • Paula Eliasoph (1895–1983), painter, poet
  • Israel Lewis Feinberg, M.D. (1872–1941), coroner of New York County{{cite news|title=Dr. Israel Feinberg, Ex-Coroner Here, 69 – Head of Old Board, I910-18, Sought to Abolish System |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/04/14/archives/dr-israel-feinberg-excoroner-here-69-head-of-old-board-i91018.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 14, 1941 |page=17 |access-date=May 12, 2023}}
  • Sidney A. Fine (1903–1982), New York state assemblyman, senator, and U.S. congressman[https://books.google.com/books?id=ACTF56SnaykC&dq=Montefiore+cemetery+sidney+fine&pg=PA190 The Jews of Capitol Hill], p. 190
  • Fyvush Finkel (1922–2016), actor
  • Alexander Granach (1893–1945), actorWilson, p. 292.[https://books.google.com/books?id=risxDwAAQBAJ&dq=Montefiore+cemetery+alexander+granach&pg=PT16 From the Shtetl to the Stage]
  • Shemaryahu Gurary (1897–1989), Chabad rabbi{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWH51mqdpi8C&pg=PA54 |page=54 |title= The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson |first1=Samuel |last1=Heilman |first2=Menachem |last2=Friedman |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0691154428}}
  • Philip M. Kleinfeld (1894–1971), New York State assemblyman, senator, and judge
  • Israel H. Levinthal (1888–1982), rabbi{{Cite web |title=Locator |url=http://montefiorecemetery.org/search/?fname=&lname=Levinthal&dob_month=&dob_year=&page=1&view=1&x=0&y=0 |access-date=June 9, 2023 |website=Montefiore Cemetery}}
  • Oscar Lewis (1914–1970), author and anthropologist{{cite news|last1=Whitman|first1=Alden|title=Oscar Lewis, Author and Anthropologist, Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/18/archives/oscar-lewis-author-and-anthropologist-dead-u-of-illinois-professor.html|access-date=September 23, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 18, 1970|page=42}}
  • Lou Limmer (1925–2007), baseball player
  • Joseph Margoshes (1866–1955), Yiddish journalist
  • Samuel Margoshes (1887–1968), Yiddish journalist and newspaper editor
  • William Meyerowitz (1887–1981), artist
  • Hans Morgenthau (1904–1980), international relations scholar{{cite web| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7Z8rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V_wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5291,3735449&dq=hans+morgenthau+dies&hl=en |title=Hans Morgenthau dies; noted political scientist |newspaper=Nashua Telegraph |location=Nashua, N.H. |date=July 21, 1980 |access-date=May 12, 2023 |via=news.google.com}}{{cite web |title=Montefiore Cemetery – Locator |url=http://montefiorecemetery.org/search/?x=0&y=0&fname=&lname=morganthau&dob_month=&dob_year=&page=1&view=1 |website=Montefiore Cemetery |access-date=May 12, 2023}}
  • Barnett Newman (1905–1970), artist{{cite web |first=Ron |last=Marzlock |title=Francis Lewis Blvd. At 231st St., Cambria Heights |url=http://www.qchron.com/qboro/i_have_often_walked/francis-lewis-blvd-at-st-st-cambria-heights/article_1a1944fd-2a11-5c61-8853-ea83583f6bbf.html |work=Queens Chronicle |date=May 16, 2002 |access-date=May 12, 2023}}
  • Joseph Schlossberg (1875–1971), labor activist
  • Nathan D. Shapiro (1887–1969), lawyer and New York State assemblyman
  • Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950), sixth Lubavitcher RebbeHeilman and Friedman (2012), p. 17.
  • Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe
  • Arnold Schuster (1927–1952), Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective{{cite news|last1=Perlmutter|first1=Emanuel|title=150 Police Seeking Schuster Slayer; Motive a Mystery – Hunt Sutton Crony – Tenuto, Escaped Felon, the Chief Suspect in Brooklyn Tragedy – Victim Received Threats – Letters, Calls Began After He Spotted Bandit, but Family Did Not Want Guard, Police Say|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/03/10/84304182.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA®ion=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=13|access-date=September 23, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=March 10, 1952|page=1}}
  • Aryeh Leib Schochet (1845–1928), rabbi[http://kevarim.com/rebbe-aryeh-leib-schochet/ Rebbe Aryeh Leib Schochet], Kevarim.com
  • Sholom Secunda (1894–1974), songwriter{{cite news|last1=Freeman|first1=William|title=Sholom Seconda Is Dead; Composer, Song Writer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/sholom-secunda-is-dead-composer-song-writer.html|access-date=September 23, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 14, 1974|page=36}}
  • Jacob Shapiro (1899–1947), mobsterWilson, p. 679.
  • Irwin Steingut (1893–1952), politician, New York State Assemblyman from 1922 to 1952, Speaker of the Assembly in 1935{{cite news|title=Steingut Funeral Attended by 4,000 – Lehman and Farley Are Among Notables Attending Service for Minority Leader|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/09/29/93579816.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA®ion=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=23|access-date=September 23, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 29, 1952|page=23}}
  • Dave Tarras ({{circa|1895}}–1989), musician{{cite news |first=Jon |last=Pareles |title=Dave Tarras, 95, Clarinetist, Dies; Purveyor of Klezmer Dance |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/14/obituaries/dave-tarras-95-clarinetist-dies-purveyor-of-klezmer-dance.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 14, 1989 |page=B6 |access-date=May 12, 2023}}{{cite web |title=Montefiore Cemetery – Locator |url=http://montefiorecemetery.org/search/?fname=&lname=tarras&dob_month=&dob_year=&page=1&view=1&x=30&y=20 |website=Montefiore Cemetery |access-date=May 12, 2023}}
  • Abraham Telvi (1934–1956), mobster{{cite news|last1=Pearlmutter|first1=Emanuel|title=Body is Exhumed in Riesel Inquiry – Hogan Requests Move to See if Telvi Was Acid-Scarred – Ohio Pair Questioned Motive Is Sought|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/08/22/305731962.html?action=click&contentCollection=Archives&module=ArticleEndCTA®ion=ArchiveBody&pgtype=article&pageNumber=12|access-date=September 23, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 22, 1956|page=12}}
  • Peter Weinberger (1956–1956), murder victim{{cite news| title=Kidnapped Baby Buried – Private Funeral Rites Held for Peter Weinberg |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/09/10/archives/kidnapped-baby-buried-private-funeral-rites-held-for-peter.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 10, 1956 |page=17 |access-date=May 12, 2023}}{{cite web |title=Montefiore Cemetery – Locator |url=http://montefiorecemetery.org/search/?fname=peter&lname=weinberger&dob_month=&dob_year=&page=1&view=1&x=41&y=15 |website=Montefiore Cemetery |access-date=May 12, 2023}}

New Montefiore

In 1928, Montefiore Cemetery expanded to a second site in Farmingdale, New York, named New Montefiore Cemetery.

References

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Sources

  • {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|date=2016|publisher=McFarland and Co.|location=Jefferson, NC|isbn=978-0786479924|edition=Third|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ|access-date=September 23, 2016}}

External links

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  • [http://www.montefiores.org Montefiore Cemeteries Official Website]
  • {{GNIS|type=retired|957547}}

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