Montefiore Cemetery

Montefiore Cemetery (registered as Springfield L. I. Cemetery Society)
Aerial view in 2021
Details
Established	1908[1]
Location	121-83 Springfield Boulevard Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York
Coordinates	40°41′09″N 73°44′30″W
Type	Jewish
Owned by	Springfield L.I. Cemetery Society
No. of graves	>160,000
Website	montefiorecemetery.org
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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.

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.[2]

Notable burials

• Hyman Amberg (1902–1926), mobster[3]
• Joseph C. Amberg (c. 1902–1926), mobster[3]
• Louis Amberg (1898–1935), mobster[3][4]
• Abraham Coralnik (1883–1937), writer and newspaper editor[5][6]
• Al "Bummy" Davis (1920–1945), boxer[7]
• Herb Edelman (1933–1996), actor[8]
• Israel Lewis Feinberg, M.D. (1872–1941), coroner of New York County[9]
• Sidney A. Fine (1903–1982), New York state assemblyman, senator, and U.S. congressman[10]
• Fyvush Finkel (1922–2016), actor
• Alexander Granach (1893–1945), actor[11][12]
• Shemaryahu Gurary (1897–1989), Chabad rabbi[13]
• Philip M. Kleinfeld (1894–1971), New York State assemblyman, senator, and judge
• Israel H. Levinthal (1888–1982), rabbi[14]
• Oscar Lewis (1914–1970), author and anthropologist[15]
• Lou Limmer (1925–2007), baseball player
• Joseph Margoshes (1866–1955), Yiddish journalist
• Samuel Margoshes (1887–1968), Yiddish journalist and newspaper editor
• William Meyerowitz (1887–1981), artist
• Hans Morgenthau (1904–1980), international relations scholar[16][17]
• Barnett Newman (1905–1970), artist[18]
• Joseph Schlossberg (1875–1971), labor activist
• Nathan D. Shapiro (1887–1969), lawyer and New York State assemblyman
• Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950), sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe[19]
• Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe[19]
• Arnold Schuster (1927–1952), Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective[20]
• Aryeh Leib Schochet (1845–1928), rabbi[21]
• Sholom Secunda (1894–1974), songwriter[22]
• Jacob Shapiro (1899–1947), mobster[23]
• Irwin Steingut (1893–1952), politician, New York State Assemblyman from 1922 to 1952, Speaker of the Assembly in 1935[24]
• Dave Tarras (c. 1895–1989), musician[25][26]
• Abraham Telvi (1934–1956), mobster[27]
• Peter Weinberger (1956–1956), murder victim[28][29]

New Montefiore

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

References

1. Montefiores homepage
2. "Shaft to Honor Police Dead". New York Times. September 25, 1949. p. 49. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
3. Wilson, pp. 18–19.
4. "Louis Amberg Buried – No Ceremony Held for Gangster – Hunt for Slayer Pressed". The New York Times. October 25, 1935. p. 17. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
5. "Coralnik Services Attended by Many – Associate Editor of the Jewish Day Is Eulogized by Dr. Samuel Margoshes". The New York Times. July 19, 1937. p. 16. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
6. "Montefiore Cemetery – Locator". Montefiore Cemetery. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
7. Getty Images
8. Wilson, p. 219.
9. "Dr. Israel Feinberg, Ex-Coroner Here, 69 – Head of Old Board, I910-18, Sought to Abolish System". The New York Times. April 14, 1941. p. 17. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
10. The Jews of Capitol Hill, p. 190
11. Wilson, p. 292.
12. From the Shtetl to the Stage
13. Heilman, Samuel; Friedman, Menachem (2012). The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Princeton University Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0691154428.
14. "Locator". Montefiore Cemetery. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
15. Whitman, Alden (December 18, 1970). "Oscar Lewis, Author and Anthropologist, Dead". The New York Times. p. 42. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
16. "Hans Morgenthau dies; noted political scientist". Nashua Telegraph. Nashua, N.H. July 21, 1980. Retrieved May 12, 2023 – via news.google.com.
17. "Montefiore Cemetery – Locator". Montefiore Cemetery. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
18. Marzlock, Ron (May 16, 2002). "Francis Lewis Blvd. At 231st St., Cambria Heights". Queens Chronicle. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
19. Heilman and Friedman (2012), p. 17.
20. Perlmutter, Emanuel (March 10, 1952). "150 Police Seeking Schuster Slayer; Motive a Mystery – Hunt Sutton Crony – Tenuto, Escaped Felon, the Chief Suspect in Brooklyn Tragedy – Victim Received Threats – Letters, Calls Began After He Spotted Bandit, but Family Did Not Want Guard, Police Say". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
21. Rebbe Aryeh Leib Schochet, Kevarim.com
22. Freeman, William (June 14, 1974). "Sholom Seconda Is Dead; Composer, Song Writer". The New York Times. p. 36. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
23. Wilson, p. 679.
24. "Steingut Funeral Attended by 4,000 – Lehman and Farley Are Among Notables Attending Service for Minority Leader". The New York Times. September 29, 1952. p. 23. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
25. Pareles, Jon (February 14, 1989). "Dave Tarras, 95, Clarinetist, Dies; Purveyor of Klezmer Dance". The New York Times. p. B6. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
26. "Montefiore Cemetery – Locator". Montefiore Cemetery. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
27. Pearlmutter, Emanuel (August 22, 1956). "Body is Exhumed in Riesel Inquiry – Hogan Requests Move to See if Telvi Was Acid-Scarred – Ohio Pair Questioned Motive Is Sought". The New York Times. p. 12. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
28. "Kidnapped Baby Buried – Private Funeral Rites Held for Peter Weinberg". The New York Times. September 10, 1956. p. 17. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
29. "Montefiore Cemetery – Locator". Montefiore Cemetery. Retrieved May 12, 2023.

Sources

• Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (Third ed.). Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co. ISBN 978-0786479924. Retrieved September 23, 2016.

External links

• Montefiore Cemeteries Official Website
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Montefiore Cemetery