Cedar Park and Beth El Cemetery is a cemetery located in Emerson and Paramus, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Noted interments
Martin Balsam (1919–1996) Academy Award winning best supporting actorStrauss, Robert. "Sometimes the Grave Is a Fine and Public Place", The New York Times, March 28, 2004. Accessed September 14, 2025. "Cedar Park Cemetery in Paramus tends toward performers. Martin Balsam, who won both a Tony and an Oscar was buried there in 1996. Joe E. Lewis, the comic whose rough life was portrayed by Frank Sinatra in the 1957 movie, The Joker Is Wild, is nearby. (As are two illustrious nonperformers, the Nobel Prize writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and the poet Delmore Schwartz.)" Julian Beck (1925–1985), actor, director, poet, and painterWhere They're Buried Judith Malina (1926–2015), actress, director and writerHistory, The Living Theatre. Accessed September 14, 2025. "Illustration of gravesite at Cedar Park Cemetery, Paramus, New Jersey, where Judith, Julian, and Hanon are buried next to each other." Maxwell Bodenheim (1891–1954), poet and novelistDuggan, Amanda. "Bergen County, final resting place of the famous – and infamous", The Record, October 26, 2017. Accessed September 14, 2025. Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopherGordon, Peter E. AJS Review, vol. 32, no. 2, 2008, pp. 435–437. Manfred Clynes (1925–2020), scientist and inventorManfred Edward Clynes Myron Cohen (1902–1986), comedian and storyteller Sammy Fain (1902–1989), composer of popular musicRadio Swiss Jazz Leonard Farbstein (1902–1993), US CongressmanBioguide.congress.gobThe Leonard Farbstein Papers, 1955–1970 Lou Jacobi (1913–2009), character actor Kitty Kallen (1921–2016), big-band singer Elias Karmon (1910–2008), businessman and community leader Abraham Krotoshinsky (1892-1953), US Army soldier of the Lost Battalion and Distinguished Service Cross recipient Estee Lauder (1908–2004), businesswoman, cosmetics mogul Joe E. Lewis (1902–1971), comedian and singer John Marley (1907–1984), actor B.S. Pully (1910–1972), actor Hanon Reznikov (1950–2008), actor and writer Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966), poetJewish Telegraphic Agency Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903–1991), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Maurice Tempelsman (1929–2025), businessman, diamond magnate, merchant and romantic partner of Jackie Kennedy Onassis
See also Bergen County Cemeteries
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