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Adler, Celia b. 1891 d. January 31, 1979
Actress. A member of the famed Adler theatre family, she was known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish Theatre". She was the daughter of noted stage actor Jacob Adler, and the half sister to actors Jay Adler and Luther Adler, and actress [Read More]
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Yiddish Theatre Section
Bern, Mina b. May 5, 1911 d. January 10, 2010
Actress, Singer. Though she appeared on Broadway and in a number of Hollywood films, she shall be best remembered as a star of the Yiddish theater scene of New York. Born Mina Bernholtz in what is now Poland, she was introduced to the stage early on with the traveling group Ararat. Fleeing the Nazi invasion of 1939, she continued entertaining as she and her daughter lived first in Russia, then in Uganda, and finally in Palestine. By the time Bern landed in New York in 1949, the once-thriving...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Bernie, Ben b. May 30, 1891 d. October 20, 1943
Jazz Musician, Bandleader. Born Benjamin Anselvitz, he began his career in vaudeville. Educated at the New York College of Music, City College of New York, and Columbia School of Mines, he joined his first orchestra in 1922. For the next twenty years he toured with Maurice Chevalier, and appeared on radio and in films. His films include "Love And Kisses" (1937), "Wake Up And Love" (1937), "Stolen Harmony" (1935), and "Shoot The Works" (1934). He also wrote the songs "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Who'...[Read More]
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Bozyk, Max b. May 3, 1899 d. April 5, 1970
Actor. Born in Lodz, Poland, he began his career performing in the Yiddish theater before relocating to America. He made his film debut in "Yidle with a Fiddle" (1936), followed by "The Dybbuk" (1937). His other credits included "The Jester" (1937), "The Vow" (1938), "The Eternal Song" (1939) and "God, Man and Devil" (1949). He died at age 70 in New York City. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Yiddish Theatrical Alliance Section/Block 67, ref. 1, section A-D, line 19, grave 21.
Bozyk, Reizl b. May 13, 1914 d. September 30, 1993
Actress. A noted actress in Yiddish Theatre, she is best known for her role as 'Bubbie Kantor' in the 1988 motion picture "Crossing Delancey". She appeared on television in "Law & Order" and "Reading Rainbow", a children's program.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Yiddish Theatre Alliance Section
Buchalter, Louis 'Lepke' b. February 6, 1897 d. March 4, 1944
Organized Crime Figure. He was a Jewish Mob boss who operated in the New York City, New York Garment District in the 1930s and 1940s, and was a close associate of mafia boss Lucky Luciano. He was part of the Murder Incorporated a group of professional killers who worked solely for the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. The killers received assignments and payments to murder total strangers in the New York area or anywhere in the country, murdering anyone selected by the syndicate board...[Read More]
Cause of death: Executed in the Sing Sing Prison electric chair
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Buloff, Joseph b. December 6, 1899 d. February 27, 1985
Actor, Theatrical Director. Born Józef Bulow in the former Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), at an early age he became a leading actor with Poland's famed Vilnia Troupe. During this time he met and married the Troupe founder's daughter, Luba, also a leading actress. They emigrated to the U.S. in 1926, when Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theater was looking for a replacement for actor Muni Weisenfreund (who would later change his name to Paul Muni). Over the next decade, Buloff directed...[Read More] (Bio by: TomDuse)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 67, Line 1/2, Grave 17, Yiddish Theatrical Alliance
Burstein, Lillian b. June 20, 1918 d. June 11, 2005
Actress. A major figure in Yiddish Theater, she is best known for the musical acts she produced and staged as the matriarch of "The Four Bursteins", a troupe composed of herself, her husband and their twin children, Michael and Susan. Touring internationally, The Four Bursteins made a name bringing what Lux termed "classical Jewish opera" to Yiddish-speaking enclaves of South Africa, South America, Europe, Australia, Israel and the United States. She began her career at age 7 on stage at...[Read More] (Bio by: Helaine M. Cigal)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Burstein, Paul 'Pesach'ke' b. April 15, 1896 d. April 6, 1986
Actor. A matinee idol of Yiddish Theatre, he was brought to the United States in 1924 by Boris Thomashefsky. Renowned for his unique whistling, he was a popular Columbia recording artist in the 1920s and 1930s.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 67, Section A-D, Line 17,
Caplin, Nathan b. August 3, 1891 d. August 28, 1923
Organized Crime Figure. Known as "Kid Dropper", he was a notorious Jewish crime gang leader during the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1923 gang he led and the gang headed by gangster Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen fought for supremacy of the labor rackets in New York City, New York. On August 28, 1923, he had just left the Essex Market Court House in lower Manhattan under heavy police guard and was sitting in a taxicab in front of the courthouse when mobster Louis Cohen, who had been hired by Orgen...[Read More]
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 12, Path 7, Section D, Line 3, Grave 12. Facing Block 10
Dovlatov, Sergei Donatovich b. September 3, 1941 d. August 24, 1990
Author. Born in Ufa, Russia, during World War II when his parents were evacuated from the besieged city of Leningrad, after schooling he had performed compulsory service in the Soviet Army as a prison guard. His time in this duty gave him his first ideas and inspirations for writing. Unable to publish in the Soviet Union, Dovlatov circulated his writings through "samizdat" (illegal hand-printed copies) and by having them smuggled into Western Europe for publication in foreign journals; an...[Read More] (Bio by: julia&keld)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block: 9, Reference: 20, Section: H, Line: 14, Grave: 4
Eisenstaedt, Alfred b. December 6, 1898 d. August 24, 1995
Photojournalist. Renown for his photos that appeared on the cover of "Life Magazine", his most famous photo became the shot of a United States Navy sailor kissing a woman in a white dress in New York City, New York's Times Square during the celebration sparked by V-J Day on August 14, 1945.
Cause of death: Unknown
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Fields, Shep b. September 12, 1910 d. February 26, 1981
Jazz Bandleader. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he played saxophone and clarinet, but was most noted for being a popular bandleader during the big band swing era. Performing with various groups on radio shows, his first big break came when he was invited to become conductor for the Veloz and Yolanda dance team in 1932. They toured though the US eastern seaboard also in Canada and Argentina, when he was offered his own NBC coast-to-coast radio broadcast in 1935. In 1936, he signed with Bluebird...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Gilbert, Jacob H. b. June 17, 1920 d. February 27, 1981
US Congressman. He was elected as a Democrat to represent New York's 22nd and 23rd Congressional Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1960 to 1971.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Gilford, Jack b. July 25, 1907 d. June 2, 1990
Actor. Born Jacob Aaron Gellman in New York City, New York, his father worked in the fur industry, and his mother owned a restaurant. Discovered working in a pharmacy by comedian Milton Berle, he began performing in amateur theater, where he started doing imitations and impersonations. His first appearance in motion pictures was in a short entitled "Midnight Melodies." In 1938, he worked as the MC in the first downtown New York integrated nightclub, "Cafe Society". He created original spoofs on...[Read More] (Bio by: Jane Eubanks)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Gilford, Madeline b. May 30, 1923 d. April 14, 2008
Actress, Author. A working actress from the age of three, she married the legendary character actor Jack Gilford in 1949 and they remained a vital force in the New York theatre scene until his death in 1990. Like many actors of post-World War II era, both were heavily involved in left-wing politics. She and her husband were blacklisted after director-choreographer Jerome Robbins accused them of being Communist sympathizers during the McCarthy hearings. Banned from film and television, she was...[Read More] (Bio by: Miracle Mile Tim)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Goldstein, Martin (Meyer) 'Buggsy' b. 1905 d. June 12, 1941
Organized Crime Figure. Born Meyer Goldstein, he was a member of a murder-for-hire gang made up of low-level Jewish and Italian gangsters working out of Brooklyn, New York City, New York during the 1930s. This gang came to be known in the news media as "Murder Inc.", and carried out gangland murders in the New York City area under the direction of crime figures Lepke Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. Goldstein was executed in 1941 by electric chair in the Sing Sing Correctional Facilityin...[Read More]
Cause of death: Executed
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 42, Ref. 3, Sect. D, Grave 26
Gordon (Wexler), Waxey (Irving) b. 1888 d. June 24, 1952
Organized Crime Figure. Born Irving Wexler in New York City, New York's Lower East Side, he became one of the most powerful Prohibition-era alcohol smugglers on the Eastern coast of the United States. His power ended when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. In 1951, Gordon was sentenced to twenty-five years in Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco, California after being convicted of being a narcotics peddler and fourth-time offender, where he died natural causes in 1952.
Cause of death: Natural causes
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 28, Line 8, Grave 3
Huber, Harold b. December 5, 1909 d. September 29, 1959
Actor. He received degrees from New York University and Columbia Law School but did not pursue a career as a lawyer. He made his Broadway debut in "A Farewell to Arms" in 1930. He spoke several languages. His face was scarred in an amateur fencing match. Among his nearly 100 films throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were "The Thin Man," "A Gentleman After Dark," "The Good Earth," "Beau Geste," "Mysterious Mr. Moto," "A Slight Case of Murder," "The Gay Desperado," and "Charlie Chan in City in...[Read More] (Bio by: Joan Cavanaugh)
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA
Plot: Block 76C Lot 48C Grave 4
Kalich, Bertha b. May 17, 1874 d. April 18, 1939
Actress. She had a long career as a prominent figure of Yiddish Theatre in New York City, New York.
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens County, New York, USA

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