Mount Hebron Cemetery

Mount Hebron Cemetery

Infobox Cemetery
name = Mount Hebron Cemetery


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established = 1919
country = USA
location = Flushing, New York
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type = Jewish
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website = [http://www.mounthebroncemetery.com/ official website]
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Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in the Flushing neighborhood of New York City. It was founded in 1919. It is noted for its Yiddish theater section. [ “Historian Jeff Gottlieb Creates ‘Jewish Heritage Trail’ In Queens, by John Toscano, The Queens Gazette, May 29, 2002 [http://www.qgazette.com/News/2002/0529/Feature_Stories/] ] [For boro, such a trail Jewish heritage map to be light & serious, By Donald Bertrand, Daily News, May 26th 2002 [http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/ny_local/2002/05/26/2002-05-26_for_boro__such_a_trail_jewis.html] ]

Notable Burials

*Celia Adler Forman (1889-1979)
* Pesach'ke Burstein (1896-1986)
* Shep Fields (1910-1981), band leader
* Misha Fishzon (1884-1949)
* Leo Frank (1884–1915), the only Jew ever lynched in the United States
* Aaron Lebeleff, actor (died 1960)
* Benny Leonard (1896–1947), a renowned prize fighter who was once lightweight champ and won over 200 fights
* Molly Picon Kalish, actress (1898-1992)
* Menasha Skulnik (1892-1970), actor
* Bertha Kalish Spachner, actress (died 1939)
* Maurice Schwartz (1891-1960), actor
* Boris Thomashevsky (1866-1939) , actor
* Bessie Thomashefsky (1873-1962), actress

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