About Mount Hebron Cemetery
Mount Hebron Cemetery is a jewish cemetery near Queens, Queens County, New York. It lies about 3.8 mi south of Queens. Wikidata records 92 notable people buried here, including Sergei Dovlatov, Raphael Lemkin and Ida Kamińska. The nearest funeral home we know of is Sinai Funeral Home in New York, about 1.3 mi away. It is one of 49 cemeteries we list in Queens County, and 94 other listed cemeteries lie within 10 miles. 20 of the 49 listings in Queens County have a phone number or website on record.
This record has no mailing address, so it is listed under the nearest town, Queens. The pin on the map shows the recorded location.
Notable people buried at Mount Hebron Cemetery
Among them: 32 actors, 17 musicians, 16 writers, 4 US representatives, 2 artists, 2 business leaders, 2 journalists, 2 World War I veterans.
- Sergei Dovlatov1941-1990Soviet writer
- Raphael Lemkin1900-1959Polish Jewish lawyer
- Ida Kamińska1899-1980Polish actress
- Alfred Eisenstaedt1898-1995German American photographer
- Emil Leon Post1897-1954Polish-born American logician
- Jack Gilford1907-1990American actor, comedian
- Alan King1927-2004American comedian and actor
- Gregory Ratoff1897-1960Russian-American actor, director and producer
- Molly Picon1898-1992American actress
- Marvin Kaplan1927-2016American actor
- Solomon Schechter1847-1915Moldavian-born American rabbi and scholar
- Louis Buchalter1897-1944American mobster
Show all 92 notable burials
- Celia Adler1889-1979American television actor
- Ben Bernie1891-1943American jazz violinist, bandleader, radio personality
- Bertha Kalich1874-1939Actress in American Yiddish Theatre
- Julius Schwartz1915-2004American editor
- Leon Moisseiff1872-1943Suspension bridge engineer
- Harold Huber1909-1959American actor
- Maurice Schwartz1890-1960American actor and director
- Reizl Bozyk1914-1993Polish-American actress
- Armand Kaliz1887-1941American actor
- Waxey Gordon1888-1952American mobster
- Fred Lebow1932-1994American distance runner
- George Weinberg1929-2017American psychologist
- Samuel Gold1835-1920Hungarian physician and journalist
- Nathan D. Perlman1887-1952American politician
- Shep Fields1910-1981American jazz bandleader
- Aaron Lebedeff1873-1960Theatre actor
- Boris Thomashefsky1868-1939Ukrainian-born American actor and singer
- Emanuel Weiss1906-1944Mafia hitman
- John Gassner1903-1967Hungarian-American theater historian, critic, educator, and anthologist
- Lillian Lux1918-2005American singer, author, songwriter and actress
- Martin Goldstein1905-1941American mobster
- Benjamin Winter, Sr.1882-1944American businessman
- Bessie Thomashefsky1873-1962Ukrainian-American actress and comedian
- Isidore Dollinger1903-2000American politician
- James H. Scheuer1920-2005American politician
- Joseph Rumshinsky1881-1956American composer
- Michael Horodniceanu1944-2023American engineer
- Sidney Janis1896-1989American art dealer and art collector
- William I. Sirovich1882-1939American politician
- Clara Gold1888-1946American actress and recording artist
- Harriette Tarler1920-2001American actress
- Max Bozyk1888-1970Polish actor
- Mina Bern1911-2010American actress
- Pesach Burstein1896-1986Polish-born American comedian, singer, coupletist, and vaudeville/theater director
- David Medoff1888-1978Singer and actor
- Eddie Layton1925-2004American musician
- Ephraim Deinard1846-1930Hebrew bookman
- Isidore Lillian1882-1960Vaudville entertainer, songwriter, playwright, composer of Yiddish songs and film music
- Max Rosen1900-1956Romanian violinist
- Menasha Skulnik1890-1970American comedian
- Bernard Tompkins1904-1965American politician in New York
- Blanka Behr1881-1965Hungarian writer
- Boris Rosenthal1881-1938Jewish actor
- Charles Pores1894-1951American athletics competitor (born 1897)
- Chick Wergeles1893-1972American sports promoter and boxing manager
- Dora Edinger1890-1977German historian and author
- Julius Adler1906-1994American actor
- Luba Kadison1906-2006Lithuanian Jewish actor
- Mathilde Roth Schechter1857-1924American activist
- Muni Seroff1895-1979Actor and singer
- Paulina Lavitz1879-1959Yiddish theatre actress
- Richard Kuh1921-2011American lawyer
- Samuel Vigoda1892-1990Cantor
- William Epstein1912-2001Canadian civil servant
- Abraham Frachtenberg1855-1927Cantor
- Abraham Landau1895-1935American mobster
- Dinah Shtettin1869-1946English-born Yiddish theater actress
- Eugen Gärtner1885-1980German rabbi
- Fred Schmertz1888-1976
- Isaac Isidore Solotorefsky1873-1946Yiddish actor and playwright
- Lefty Louis Rosenberg1891-1914New York gangster
- Marcia Stein1875-1927Russian-American photographer
- Maxwell Dane1906-2004American businessman
- Morrie Yohai1920-2010American businessman
- Morty Manford1950-1992LGBTQ rights activist
- Ruth Kamińska1919-2005Polish actress
- Sam Paul1874-1927Tammany Hall political organizer, gambler and underworld figure in New York at the start of the 20th century; star witness during the Becker-Rosenthal murder trial.
- Adam Kovacs1947-2020Amateur cartoonist from New York
- Anna Dubnoff-Raiskin1889-1957
- Aron Leib Baron1886-1954
- Beata Malkin1892-1973Ukrainian operatic soprano singer
- David Putterman1900-1979American cantor
- Erwin Price1922-2015American trombonist
- Fischel Scheiner1870-19371870s-1930s
- Henrietta Jacobson1906-1988Yiddish theater actress
- Isaac Sackler1874-1945
- Jules Manford1919-1982American dentist, 1919-1982
- Madelyn Saloshin1896-1941First wife of Oliver Hardy
- Peter Stone1892-1934American boxing manager and matchmaker
- Sophie Gaby1893-1947
People whose Wikidata entry gives Mount Hebron Cemetery as their place of burial, ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions cover them. Names link to Wikipedia where an English article exists. Plot locations are not included; ask the cemetery office.
Map
40.73686, -73.83099
What Mount Hebron Cemetery offers
Not available: we have no confirmed information yet about accepting new burials, cremation options, cremation niches, mausoleum, columbarium, chapel, green burial, veterans section, office on site, parking, wheelchair accessible, restrooms. If you work there or know it well, tell us what it offers.
Nearby cemeteries
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- Brinckerhoff CemeteryQueens, NYCemetery2.3 mi
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- Grace Episcopal ChurchyardQueens, NYEpiscopal cemetery2.7 mi
- Prospect CemeteryQueens, NYCemetery3.0 mi
Funeral homes near Mount Hebron Cemetery
- Sinai Funeral Home1.3 miFuneral home · New York · (347) 438-0315
- Sinai Chapels1.3 miFuneral home · Flushing · (718) 445-0300
- Jeffer Funeral Homes1.4 miFuneral home · Flushing · (718) 793-3883
- Parkside Memorial Chapels1.4 miFuneral home · Forest Hills · (718) 896-9000
- Sinai Chapels1.4 miFuneral home · Forest Hills · (718) 445-0300
- Schwartz Brothers Jeffer Memorial Chapels1.4 miFuneral home · Forest Hills · (718) 263-7600
Listings from our sister site, Funeral Home Directory USA, sorted by straight-line distance. Call ahead: services, prices and hours are not shown here.
Frequently asked questions
Where is Mount Hebron Cemetery located?
Mount Hebron Cemetery is at 130-04 Horace Harding Expressway, Queens, NY 11367 in Queens County. GPS coordinates: 40.73686, -73.83099.
Is Mount Hebron Cemetery a Jewish cemetery?
Our records list a Jewish affiliation, based on the recorded religion of the cemetery. Burial rules for people outside the congregation vary, so ask the cemetery.
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