New Montefiore Cemetery

Jewish cemetery in Suffolk County, West Babylon, New York

40°43′35″N 73°23′14″W / 40.72639°N 73.38722°W / 40.72639; -73.38722
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TypeJewishOwned byMontefiore Cemetery CorporationSize250 acres^[1]No. of gravesmore than 150,000WebsiteNew Montefiore CemeteryFind a GraveNew Montefiore CemeteryThe Political GraveyardNew Montefiore Cemetery

New Montefiore Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in West Babylon, New York.

History

Montefiore Cemetery Corporation had been maintaining Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens since 1908. The corporation bought 250 acres from Pinelawn Cemetery for $375,000 and established New Montefiore Cemetery in 1928.^[1] Burials started shortly afterwards.

New Montefiore is one of a group of adjacent large cemeteries on Long Island sometimes called "cemetery row." From north to south along Wellwood Avenue, these are the Department of Veterans Affairs' Long Island National Cemetery, the non-sectarian Pinelawn Memorial Park and Gardens, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn's Saint Charles Cemetery, and four Jewish cemeteries, which are Beth Moses Cemetery, Wellwood Cemetery, New Montefiore, and Mount Ararat Cemetery.^[2]

The Shomrim Society, the fraternal society of Jewish officers in the New York City Police Department, has a burial plot for their members in New Montefiore Cemetery.

Notable burials

Herb Abrams (1955–1996) (born Herbert Charles Abrams), founder of the Universal Wrestling Federation^[3]
Skippy Adelman (1924–2004) (born Julius Adelman), photographer, executive in film production and advertising agencies^[4]
Abe Beame (1906–2001) (born Abraham David Birnbaum), mayor of New York City^[5]
Benny Bell (1906–1999) (born Benjamin Samberg), American singer and songwriter^[6]
Ruby Goldstein (1907–1984), boxer and boxing referee^[7]
Aaron Goodelman (1890–1978), sculptor^[8]
Morton Gould (1913–1996), musical composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist^[9]
Laurel Griggs (2006–2019), child actress^[10]
Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940), Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, and soldier,^[11] reinterred in Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem in 1964.^[12]
Alexa Kenin (1962–1985), actress^[13]
Oscar Lewis (1914–1970), author and anthropologist^[14]
Jacob Milch (1866–1945), writer, candy manufacturer, socialist^[15]
Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1878–1939), writer, journalist, and Communist^[16]
Lou Pearlman (1954–2016), record producer^{[citation needed]}
Mae Questel (1908–1998), actress and vocal artist^[17]
Tommy Ramone (real name Thomas Erdely, 1949–2014), original drummer for the punk rock band, the Ramones.
Emily Remler (1957–1990), jazz guitarist^{[citation needed]}
Seymour R. Thaler (1919–1976), lawyer, New York State Senator, and felon^[18]
Nahum Tschacbasov (1899–1984), Russian Empire-born painter, educator, poet^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Letter from Milton Pollack, in the case file of Pinelawn Cemetery vs. John P. Lomenzo, Louis J. Lefkowitz, and Hollis S. Ingraham, Constituting the Cemetery Board in the Division of Cemeteries in the Department of State of New York and the Cemetery Board, New York County Clerk index #12077/69". Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Department. September 4, 1952. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
^ Rather, John (August 30, 1998). "First, the People Moved East. Now, So Are the Cemeteries". New York Times. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
^ "Queens, NY". New Montefiore Cemetery. Retrieved September 2, 2023.
^ Section 3, Block 14, Row 10, Grave 12R – Society: ONLO Association Inc (New Montefiore Cemetery ID: 5256343). Retrieved May 20, 2022.
^ Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (Third ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7864-7992-4. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Wilson (2016), p. 53.
^ "Ruby Goldstein, 76, Ring Referee Who Quit". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 25 April 1984. p. 40.
^ "Artist Biography & Facts – Aaron Goodelman". askart.com. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
^ Wilson (2016), p. 290.
^ Todisco, Eric (November 10, 2019). "13-Year-Old Broadway Star Laurel Griggs' Cause of Death Revealed". people.com. People Magazine. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
^ "Jabotinsky Rites Today – Veterans' Organizations to Take Part in Services for Zionist". New York Times. August 6, 1940. p. 20. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Spiegel, Irving (July 3, 1964). "Israelis to Honor Patriot's Memory – Bodies of Jabotinsky and His Wife Going Back Home". New York Times. p. 25. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Wilson (2016), p. 400.
^ Whitman, Alden (December 18, 1970). "Oscar Lewis, Author and Anthropologist, Dead". New York Times. p. 42. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ "Deaths". The New York TImes. August 20, 2021. p. 19. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
^ "8,000 Honor Olgin in Funeral Parade – 45,000 Join in Ceremonies for Communist Editor". New York Times. November 27, 1939. p. 14. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Bahn, Paul G. (2014). The Archaeology of Hollywood - Traces of the Golden Age. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7591-2378-6. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
^ Krebs, Albin (February 6, 1976). "Seymour R. Thaler Dead; Former State Senator, 56". New York Times. p. 28. Retrieved 23 September 2016.