Mount Carmel Cemetery (Queens)

Cemetery in Queens, New York

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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. It was built as part of the Rural Cemetery Act, a New York City ban on new Manhattan cemeteries effective 1850, which led to the opening of new ones in Brooklyn and Queens that form an area collectively called Cemetery Belt.

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".

External links

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