Wellwood Cemetery
{{short description|Jewish cemetery in Suffolk County, New York}}
{{distinguish|text = Welwood Murray Cemetery in Palm Springs, California}}
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Wellwood Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in West Babylon, New York. It was established as the annex to Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York. The cemetery comprises many sections, each under the auspices of a synagogue, landsmanschaft, or group such as the Brooklyn Jewish Postal Workers Union. Each of these is marked, most commonly by a stone arch or a pair of stone columns. Many of the landsmanshaft have dedicated Holocaust monuments to the victims of the Nazis in their ancestral town. Examples include Baranovichi, Belarus;{{cite web|url=http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-baranavichy-ww.htm|title=hm/baranavichy/wellwood|website=www.museumoffamilyhistory.com}} Ioannina, Greece;{{cite web|url=http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-ioannina-ww.htm|title=hm/ioannina/wellwood|website=www.museumoffamilyhistory.com}} Pilica, Poland;{{cite web|url=http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-pilica-ww.htm|title=hm/piltz/wellwood|website=www.museumoffamilyhistory.com}} Sokołów Podlaski, Poland;{{cite web|url=http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-sokolow-podlaski-ww.htm|title=hm/sokolow-podlaski/wellwood|website=www.museumoffamilyhistory.com}} and Burshtyn, Ukraine.{{cite web|url=http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hm-burshtyn-ww.htm|title=hm/burshtyn/wellwood|website=www.museumoffamilyhistory.com}}
Several well-known rabbis are buried here.{{cite web|url=http://kevarim.com/category/wellwood-cemetery/|title=Wellwood Cemetery – Long Island|website=kevarim.com}} Kehillas Belz of New York has a section within the Beth Moses section of Wellwood Cemetery. The Belz Kehilla still dedicated (Mekudash) this section when the previous Belz Rebbe Reb Aharon was still alive.
Notable burials
- Maury Allen – sportswriter, actor, and columnist{{cite book|url=|at= #193|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}}
- Jules Bass - television producer, director, author and lyricist
- Shulamith Firestone - Radical Feminist, artist, author of The Dialectic of Sex and Airless Spaces
- Craig Gilbert – film writer, producer, and director
- Danny Leiner – film director
- Lucy Ozarin – one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the US Navy and one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
- Leo F. Rayfiel – former United States House of Representatives and United States District Court judge
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg{{cite news |first= Clyde|last= Haberman|title=Executed At Sundown, 50 Years Ago. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E6D81E38F933A15755C0A9659C8B63 |work=New York Times |date=June 20, 2003 |access-date=2008-06-23 }}{{cite book|url=|at= #10934|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|edition=3rd|first1=Scott|last1= Wilson|first2=Gregory W. (forward)|last2=Mank|date=2016|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|isbn=978-0786479924|oclc=948561021}} – convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and executed
- Lester Wolff – Former member of the United States House of Representatives
References
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External links
- {{Official|http://wellwoodcemetery.com/}}
- {{Find a Grave cemetery|66677}}
- {{GNIS 2|969055|GNIS data}} {{coord|40|44|22|N|73|23|12|W|display=title,inline|source:GNIS}}
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Category:Belarusian-Jewish culture in New York (state)
Category:Cemeteries in Suffolk County, New York
Category:Greek-American culture in New York (state)
Category:Greek-Jewish culture in the United States
Category:Jewish cemeteries in New York (state)
Category:Jews and Judaism in Suffolk County, New York