Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)
Mount Carmel Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located within the Cemetery Belt in Queens, New York City that opened in 1906.
The main section is in Glendale, Queens, and has more than 85,000 occupied plots. A new section was opened in nearby Ridgewood.
History
The Rural Cemetery Act, a New York City ban on new Manhattan cemeteries effective 1850, led to the opening of new ones in Brooklyn and Queens areas that form an area collectively called Cemetery Belt.
Over a dozen major Jewish cemeteries opened. Some of these have web sites that allow searching for buried friends and relatives.
Famous burials
- Bella Abzug
- Jacob Adler
- Sholem Aleichem
- Joseph Baskin
- Mendel Beilis
- Benjamin J. Bialostotzky
- Jeanette Goodman Brill
- Abraham Cahan
- Roger C. Carmel
- Erwin Chargaff
- Betty Comden
- William Edlin
- Morris Feinstone
- Leo Frank
- Israel Freedman
- Iser Ginzburg
- B. Gorin
- Lazarus Joseph (1891–1966), NY State Senator and New York City Comptroller
- Alexander Kahn
- Leon Kamaiky
- Meyer Kanewsky
- Philip Krantz
- Harry E. Lewis
- Abraham Liessin
- Meyer London
- A. Lutzky
- Minnie Marx, mother of The Marx Brothers
- Sam Marx, father of The Marx Brothers
- Zvi Hirsch Masliansky
- Vladimir Medem
- N. B. Minkoff
- Max Pine
- Abe Reles
- Bernard Revel
- Morris Rosenfeld
- Harry Rogoff
- Nelson Ruttenberg
- Bennett E. Siegelstein
- George Tobias
- Mordecai Waxman
- Henny Youngman
- Szmul Zygielbojm
- Jean de Koven
References
- ^ Howard Kramer. "The Complete Pilgrim, Religious Travel Site".
- ^ ex. www.MountHebronCemetery.com/search.asp
