{{Short description|Jewish cemetery in Suffolk County, West Babylon, New York}} {{Infobox Cemetery | name = New Montefiore Cemetery | image = | imagesize = | caption = | established = 1928<ref name=cert>{{cite web|title=Letter from Milton Pollack, in the case file of Pinelawn Cemetery vs. John P. Lomenzo, Louis J. Lefkowitz, and Hollis S. Ingraham, Constituting the Cemetery Board in the Division of Cemeteries in the Department of State of New York and the Cemetery Board, New York County Clerk index #12077/69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CqQNhs68q6kC&q=montefiore+cemetery+acres&pg=PA115|publisher=Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Department|date=September 4, 1952|accessdate=13 November 2016}}</ref> | country =United States | location = 1180 Wellwood Avenue<br />West Babylon, New York, 11704 | coordinates = {{coord|40|43|35|N|73|23|14|W|display=inline,title}} | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 12 | mapframe-wikidata = yes | type = Jewish | owner = Montefiore Cemetery Corporation | size = 250 acres<ref name=cert/> | graves = more than 150,000 | website = [http://newmontefiorecemetery.org New Montefiore Cemetery] | findagraveid= 65415 | politicalgeo= NY/SF-buried.html#cms06188 | footnotes = | nrhp = }} '''New Montefiore Cemetery''' is a Jewish cemetery located in West Babylon, New York.
==History== Montefiore Cemetery Corporation had been maintaining Montefiore Cemetery in Springfield Gardens, Queens since 1908. The corporation bought 250 acres from Pinelawn Cemetery for $375,000 and established New Montefiore Cemetery in 1928.<ref name=cert/> Burials started shortly afterwards.
New Montefiore is one of a group of adjacent large cemeteries on Long Island sometimes called "cemetery row." From north to south along Wellwood Avenue, these are the Department of Veterans Affairs' Long Island National Cemetery, the non-sectarian Pinelawn Memorial Park and Gardens, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn's Saint Charles Cemetery, and four Jewish cemeteries, which are Beth Moses Cemetery, Wellwood Cemetery, New Montefiore, and Mount Ararat Cemetery.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Rather|first1=John|title=First, the People Moved East. Now, So Are the Cemeteries|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/30/nyregion/first-the-people-moved-east-now-so-are-the-cemeteries.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=22 May 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=August 30, 1998}}</ref>
The Shomrim Society, the fraternal society of Jewish officers in the New York City Police Department, has a burial plot for their members in New Montefiore Cemetery.
==Notable burials== * Herb Abrams (1955–1996) (born Herbert Charles Abrams), founder of the Universal Wrestling Federation<ref name="New Montefiore Cemetery d843">{{cite web | title=Queens, NY | website=New Montefiore Cemetery | url=http://newmontefiorecemetery.org/interment/?id=6374681 | access-date=September 2, 2023}}</ref> * Skippy Adelman (1924–2004) (born Julius Adelman), photographer, executive in film production and advertising agencies<ref>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|New Montefiore Cemetery,|2004}} |title=Section 3, Block 14, Row 10, Grave 12R – Society: ONLO Association Inc.|url=http://newmontefiorecemetery.org/interment/?id=5256343 |type=New Montefiore Cemetery ID: 5256343 |access-date=May 20, 2022}}</ref> * Abe Beame (1906–2001) (born Abraham David Birnbaum), mayor of New York City<ref name=Wilson>{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons|date=2016|publisher=McFarland and Company|location=Jefferson, North Carolina|isbn=978-0-7864-7992-4|page=49|edition=Third|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ|accessdate=23 September 2016}}</ref> * Benny Bell (1906–1999) (born Benjamin Samberg), American singer and songwriter<ref>Wilson (2016), p. 53.</ref> * Ruby Goldstein (1907–1984), boxer and boxing referee<ref>{{cite news|title=Ruby Goldstein, 76, Ring Referee Who Quit|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|page=40|date=25 April 1984}}</ref> * Aaron Goodelman (1890–1978), sculptor<ref>{{cite web|title=Artist Biography & Facts – Aaron Goodelman|url=https://www.askart.com/artist/Aaron_J_Goodelman/89948/Aaron_J_Goodelman.aspx|website=askart.com|access-date=December 27, 2022}}</ref> * Sid Gordon (1917–1975), baseball player{{citation needed|date=April 2025}} * Morton Gould (1913–1996), musical composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist<ref>Wilson (2016), p. 290.</ref> * Laurel Griggs (2006–2019), child actress<ref>{{cite web|last=Todisco|first=Eric|title=13-Year-Old Broadway Star Laurel Griggs' Cause of Death Revealed|url=https://people.com/theater/laurel-griggs-cause-of-death/|publisher=People Magazine|website=people.com|date=November 10, 2019|access-date=November 18, 2019}}</ref> * Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940), Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, and soldier,<ref>{{cite news|title=Jabotinsky Rites Today – Veterans' Organizations to Take Part in Services for Zionist|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1940/08/06/113101334.html?pageNumber=20|accessdate=23 September 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=August 6, 1940|page=20}}</ref> reinterred in Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem in 1964.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Spiegel|first1=Irving|title=Israelis to Honor Patriot's Memory – Bodies of Jabotinsky and His Wife Going Back Home|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/07/03/israelis-to-honor-patriots-memory.html|accessdate=23 September 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=July 3, 1964|page=25}}</ref> * Alexa Kenin (1962–1985), actress<ref>Wilson (2016), p. 400.</ref> * Oscar Lewis (1914–1970), author and anthropologist<ref>{{cite news|last1=Whitman|first1=Alden|title=Oscar Lewis, Author and Anthropologist, Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/18/archives/oscar-lewis-author-and-anthropologist-dead-u-of-illinois-professor.html|access-date=23 September 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=December 18, 1970|page=42}}</ref> * Jacob Milch (1866–1945), writer, candy manufacturer, socialist<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/08/20/issue.html |access-date=October 8, 2021 |work=The New York TImes |date=August 20, 2021|page=19}}</ref> * Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1878–1939), writer, journalist, and Communist<ref>{{cite news|title=8,000 Honor Olgin in Funeral Parade – 45,000 Join in Ceremonies for Communist Editor|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/11/27/113374617.html?pageNumber=14|accessdate=23 September 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=November 27, 1939|page=14}}</ref> * Lou Pearlman (1954–2016), record producer and Ponzi Scheme Con Artist{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} * Mae Questel (1908–1998), actress and vocal artist<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bahn|first1=Paul G.|title=The Archaeology of Hollywood - Traces of the Golden Age|date=2014|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|location=Lanham, MD|isbn=978-0-7591-2378-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtBiAwAAQBAJ&q=%22new+montefiore+cemetery%22&pg=PT144|accessdate=13 November 2016}}</ref> * Tommy Ramone (real name Thomas Erdely, 1949–2014), original drummer for the punk rock band, the Ramones. * Emily Remler (1957–1990), jazz guitarist{{citation needed|date=December 2022}} * Seymour R. Thaler (1919–1976), lawyer, New York State Senator, and felon<ref>{{cite news|last1=Krebs|first1=Albin|title=Seymour R. Thaler Dead; Former State Senator, 56|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/06/archives/seymour-r-thaler-dead-former-state-senator-56.html|accessdate=23 September 2016|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 6, 1976|page=28}}</ref> * Nahum Tschacbasov (1899–1984), Russian Empire-born painter, educator, poet{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}
==See also== {{Portal|New York (state)|Judaism}} * List of cemeteries in New York
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://newmontefiorecemetery.org New Montefiore Cemetery Official Website] * {{GNIS|958439}}
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Category:Jewish cemeteries in New York (state) Category:Cemeteries in Suffolk County, New York Category:Jews and Judaism in Suffolk County, New York Category:1928 establishments in New York (state) Category:Cemeteries established in the 1920s