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Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in the Flushing neighborhood of the borough of Queens, in New York City. It was founded in 1903 as the Jewish section of Cedar Grove Cemetery, and occupies the majority of the grounds at Cedar Grove. The cemetery is on the former Spring Hill estate of colonial governor Cadwallader D. Colden. It is noted for its Yiddish theater section. About 217,000 people have been buried in Mount Hebron since it opened.
There is a large Workmen's Circle section in both Cedar Grove and Mount Hebron Cemetery, with about 12,000 burials of 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." [2]. 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.
Celia Adler (1889-1979), Yiddish theater actress
Henrietta Jacobson Adler (1906-1988), Yiddish theater actress
Julius Adler (1906-1994), Yiddish theater actor
Jules Bender (1914-1982), college basketball star
Mina Bern (1911-2010), Yiddish theater actress
Ben Bernie (1891-1943), bandleader and radio personality
Max Bozyk (approx. 1899-1970), Yiddish theater actor
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
Isidore Dollinger (1903-2000), New York State Senator and Assemblyman, U.S. Congressman, and Bronx County District Attorney
Sergei Dovlatov (1941-1990), writer
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), photojournalist
Shep Fields (1910-1981), bandleader
Misha Fishzon (1884-1949)
Jack Gilford (1908-1990) Broadway, film and television performer
Jennie Goldstein (1896-1960), Yiddish theater actress
Selig Grossinger (d. 12/18/1931), founder of Grossinger's, the famous Catskill Jewish resort. His wife and several descendants are also buried in the plot. He was part of the Balegroder Congregation burial society.[3]
Marvin Kaplan (1927-2016), actor
Nathan Kaplan (1891-1923), gangster
Alan King (1927-2004), comedian
Eddie Layton (1925-2004), organist for the New York Yankees
Fred Lebow (1932-1934), founder the New York City Marathon and president of the New York Road Runners Club
Aaron Lebedeff (1873-1960), Yiddish theater actor
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
Sam Paul (1874-1927), gambler, underworld figure, businessman, and political organizer
Jack Pearl (1894-1982), vaudeville performer and radio comedian
Nathan D. Perlman (1887-1952), U.S. congressman
Molly Picon Kalich (1898-1992), Yiddish theater actress
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
Fred Schmertz (1888-1976), founder member of the Millrose Games and the meet director from 1934 to 1974
Maurice Schwartz (1891-1960), Yiddish theater actor
William I. Sirovich (1882-1939), U.S. congressman
Menasha Skulnik (1892-1970), Yiddish theater actor
Bertha Kalich Spachner (died 1874-1939), Yiddish theater actress
Bessie Thomashefsky (1873-1962), Yiddish theater actress
Boris Thomashevsky (1866-1939), Yiddish theater actor
Emanuel Weiss (1906-1944), organized crime figure, member of Murder, Inc., and associate of Louis Buchalter
One British Commonwealth war grave, of a private of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps of World War I
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