Montefiore Cemetery, also known as Old Montefiore Cemetery, is a Jewish cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens, New York, 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 New York City Police Department, 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 (–1935), mobster Louis Amberg (1898–1935), mobster Abraham Coralnik (1883–1937), writer and newspaper editor Al "Bummy" Davis (1920–1945), boxerGetty Images Herb Edelman (1933–1996), actorWilson, p. 219. 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. congressmanThe Jews of Capitol Hill, p. 190 Fyvush Finkel (1922–2016), actor Alexander Granach (1893–1945), actorWilson, p. 292.From the Shtetl to the Stage Shemaryahu Gurary (1897–1989), Chabad rabbi Philip M. Kleinfeld (1894–1971), New York State assemblyman, senator, and judge Sondra Lee (1928-2026), actress 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 Hans Morgenthau (1904–1980), international relations scholar Barnett Newman (1905–1970), artist Joseph Schlossberg (1875–1971), labor activist Nathan D. Shapiro (1887–1969), lawyer and New York State assemblyman Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880–1950), sixth Lubavitcher RebbeHeilman and Friedman (2012), p. 17. Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902–1994), seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe Arnold Schuster (1927–1952), Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective Aryeh Leib Schochet (1845–1928), rabbiRebbe Aryeh Leib Schochet, Kevarim.com Sholom Secunda (1894–1974), songwriter Jacob Shapiro (1899–1947), mobsterWilson, p. 679. Irwin Steingut (1893–1952), politician, New York State Assemblyman from 1922 to 1952, Speaker of the Assembly in 1935 Dave Tarras (–1989), musician Abraham Telvi (1934–1956), mobster Peter Weinberger (1956–1956), murder victim Sholom Lipskar (1946–2025), rabbi and community leader
New Montefiore In 1928, Montefiore Cemetery expanded to a second site in Farmingdale, New York, named New Montefiore Cemetery.
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Montefiore Cemeteries Official Website