Montefiore Cemetery, also known as Old Montefiore Cemetery, is a

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in Springfield Gardens, Queens,

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, 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

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, has a burial plot for their members in Montefiore Cemetery, and it contains a large granite obelisk erected in 1949.

Notable burials

* Hyman Amberg (1902–1926), mobsterWilson, pp. 18–19. * Joseph C. Amberg (–1926), mobster * Louis Amberg (1898–1935), mobster * Abraham Coralnik (1883–1937), writer and newspaper editor * Al "Bummy" Davis (1920–1945), boxer *

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(1933–1996), actor * Paula Eliasoph (1895–1983), painter, poet * Israel Lewis Feinberg, M.D. (1872–1941), coroner of New York County * Sidney A. Fine (1903–1982), New York state assemblyman, senator, and U.S. congressman * Fyvush Finkel (1922–2016), actor *

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(1893–1945), actor * Shemaryahu Gurary (1897–1989),

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rabbi * Philip M. Kleinfeld (1894–1971), New York State assemblyman, senator, and judge * Israel H. Levinthal (1888–1982), rabbi * Oscar Lewis (1914–1970), author and anthropologist * 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 *

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(1875–1971), labor activist * Nathan D. Shapiro (1887–1969), lawyer and New York State assemblyman *

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(1902–1994), seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe * Arnold Schuster (1927–1952), Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective * Aryeh Leib Schochet (1845–1928), rabbi * Sholom Secunda (1894–1974), songwriter *

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(1899–1947), mobster * Irwin Steingut (1893–1952), politician, New York State Assemblyman from 1922 to 1952, Speaker of the Assembly in 1935 *

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(–1989), musician *

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(1934–1956), mobster *

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(1956–1956), murder victim * Sholom Lipskar (1946–2025), rabbi and community leader

New Montefiore

In 1928, Montefiore Cemetery expanded to a second site in

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, named New Montefiore Cemetery.

References

Sources

External links

Montefiore Cemeteries Official Website
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