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Montefiore Cemetery

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Established
  
1908

No. of graves
  
about 150,000

Founded
  
1908

Type
  
Jewish

Website
  
www.montefiores.com

Phone
  
+1 718-528-1700

Montefiore Cemetery

Location
  
121-83 Springfield Boulevard Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York

Owned by
  
Springfield L.I. Cemetery Society

Address
  
121-83 Springfield Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11413, USA

Hours
  
Closed now Friday8AM–4:30PMSaturdayClosedSunday8AM–4:30PMMonday8AM–4:30PMTuesday8AM–4:30PMWednesday8AM–4:30PMThursday8AM–4:30PM

Burials
  
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Similar
  
Mount Zion Cemetery, Mount Hebron Cemetery, Ohel, Washington Cemetery, Baron Hirsch Cemetery

Montefiore cemetery co


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.

Contents

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.

Sam luba slobodsky then aaron slobodsky at old montefiore cemetery on oct 25 2011


Notable burials

  • Hyman Amberg, mobster
  • Joseph C. Amberg, mobster
  • Louis Amberg, mobster
  • Al "Bummy" Davis, boxer
  • Herb Edelman (1933–1996), actor
  • Sidney A. Fine, New York state assemblyman, senator, and U.S. congressman
  • Fyvush Finkel, actor
  • Alexander Granach, actor
  • Shemaryahu Gurary, Chabad rabbi
  • Ari Halberstam, student murdered in anti-Jewish attack
  • Philip M. Kleinfeld, New York State assemblyman, senator, and judge
  • Oscar Lewis (1914–1970), author and anthropologist
  • Lou Limmer, baseball player
  • Barnett Newman, artist
  • Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe
  • Menachem Mendel Schneerson, seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe
  • Arnold Schuster, Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective
  • Aryeh Leib Schochet, Radifker Rebbe
  • Sholom Secunda (1894–1974), songwriter
  • Jacob Shapiro, mobster
  • Irwin Steingut (1893–1952), politician, New York State Assemblyman from 1922 to 1952, Speaker of the Assembly in 1935
  • Dave Tarras, musician
  • Abraham Telvi (1934 –1956), mobster
  • New Montefiore

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

    References

    Montefiore Cemetery Wikipedia