Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)

Mount Zion Cemetery is a large Jewish cemetery located in Maspeth, Queens, New York City. The first burial was in 1893, and as of 2015, more than 210,000 individuals had been buried there. It is noted for its memorial to those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.^[1]

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Memorial

Mount Zion Cemetery
Details
Established	1893
Location	59-63 54th Avenue, Maspeth, New York City
Country	US
Coordinates	40°43′53″N 73°54′26″W
Type	Jewish
Size	78 acres (320,000 m2)
No. of graves	>210,000
Website	Official website
Find a Grave	Mount Zion Cemetery

The grounds are approximately 78 acres,^[1] and are divided into hundreds of plots, or gates, by landsmanshaften, synagogues, or families.^[2]

Notable burials

• Herman M. Albert (1901–1947), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman^[3]
• Birdie Amsterdam (1901–1996), lawyer, judge, and New York State Supreme Court justice
• William Cohen (? –1916), U.S. Army sergeant killed by troops of Pancho Villa on U.S. soil in the Glenn Springs raid^[4][5]
• Bernard Drachman (1861–1945), rabbi^[6]
• Morris Michael Edelstein (1888–1941), US Congressman^[7]
• Isidore Einstein (1880–1938), federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition^[8]
• Berta Gersten (1894–1972), actress
• Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012), composer and conductor^[9]
• Abraham Harawitz (1879–1935), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman, Municipal Court Justice^[10]
• Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), lyricist^[11]
• Naftali Herz Imber (1856–1909), poet, lyricist, and composer of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem.^[12] Disinterred and reburied in Israel in 1953.
• Mathilde Krim (1926–2018), medical researcher
• Irving L. Levey (1898–1970), New York State Supreme Court justice
• Edna Luby (1884–1928), actress and comedian^[13]
• Theresa Moers (1893–1924), killed by the boxer Kid McCoy^[14]
• Herman Weiss (about 1869–1934), New York assemblyman^[15]
• Nathanael West (1903–1940), author and screenwriter
• Eva Zeisel (1906–2011), industrial designer

References

1. "Mount Zion Cemetery – About Us". mountzioncemetery.com. Mount Zion Cemetery. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
2. "Societies at Mount Zion Cemetery". mountzioncemetery.com. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
3. "Deaths". New York Times. February 5, 1947. p. 23. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
4. "Bandits' Victim Buried Here". New York Times. May 15, 1916. p. 3. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
5. 66th Congress, 2nd Session – Senate – Document No. 285 – Investigation of Mexican Affairs – Preliminary Report and Hearings – Committee on Foreign Relations. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1920. p. 860. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
6. "Obituary 5 – No Title". New York Times. May 5, 1946. p. 45. Retrieved 24 April 2017. (Look in the first column of "unveilings.")
7. "Edelstein Funeral Today". New York Times. June 6, 1941. p. 20. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
8. "Izzy Einstein Dies; Noted Dry Sleuth 'Prohibition Agent No. 1' of the Pre-Repeal Days Succumbs After Leg Amputation – Made Sensational Raids – Was a Master in Disguising and Won Fame by Colorful Methods – Always Unarmed". New York Times. February 18, 1938. p. 19. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
9. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. #5411. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.
10. "Justice Harawitz Dead in 57th Year" (PDF). The New York Times. Vol. LXXXIV, no. 28245. New York, N.Y. 25 May 1935. p. 15.
11. "Larry Hart Honored by 300 at Rites Here – Cast of 'A Connecticut Yankee' at Song Writer's Funeral". New York Times. November 25, 1943. p. 25. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
12. "10,000 Follow Bier Of The Zion Poet – With His Zionist Song "Hatikvah" Beside Him, Imber Is Buried from Educational Alliance – Eulogized As A Child – The Poet Never Grew Up from His Boyhood Estate, Says the Rev. J.L. Magnes". New York Times. October 11, 1909. p. 9. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
13. "Edna Luby, Actress, Dead – Former "Follies" Girl Was in Private Life Mrs. Samuel Thor". New York Times. October 3, 1928. p. 31. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
14. "Throng At Mors Funeral – The Curious Swarm at Services for Woman Murdered in Los Angeles". New York Times. August 28, 1924. p. 17. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
15. "Herman Weiss Dies – Once Assemblyman – Attorney Who Won Election in 1918 From Socialist in 8th District Was 65". New York Times. July 10, 1934. p. 21. Retrieved 18 April 2016.

External links

• Official website
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)