The Home of Peace Cemetery ( ''Beit Kvarot Beit Shalom'') is a
Jewish cemetery
A Jewish cemetery ( he, בית עלמין ''beit almin'' or ''beit kvarot'') is a cemetery where Jews are buried in keeping with Jewish tradition. Cemeteries are referred to in several different ways in Hebrew, including ''beit kevarot' ...
in
Los Angeles, California
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.
Location
It is located at 4334 Whittier Boulevard west of
Interstate 710
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in
East Los Angeles, California
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. It is across from
Calvary Catholic Cemetery and next to
Beth Israel Cemetery and
Mount Zion Cemetery.
History
In 1853, the first and
oldest Jewish cemetery in Los Angeles was established in
Chavez Ravine
Chavez Ravine is a shallow L-shaped canyon in Los Angeles, California. It sits in a large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles, next to Major League Baseball's Dodger Stadium. Chavez Ravine was named for Julian Chavez, a Los Angele ...
, near the present-day
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is a baseball stadium in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is the home stadium of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers. Opened in 1962, it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of ...
.
[Wilshire Boulevard Temple: Our History](_blank)
/ref> In 1901, Kaspare Cohn donated 30 acres (12.1 ha) of land for the establishment of this cemetery. The bodies interred at Chavez Ravine were moved to East Los Angeles's Home of Peace Memorial Park between 1902 and 1910. There are a number of famous rabbi
A rabbi () is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi – known as '' semikha'' – following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form o ...
s buried here, and amongst others a few celebrities from the entertainment industry as well.
Notable interments
* Raymond Moscatel (1931–2022), Seattle University Basketball player beat The Harlem Globe Trotters in 1952
* Inez Asher
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Early years
Inez Asher was the only child of Minor Silverberg, a Des Moines, Iowa real estate agent, and Edna Harris Silverberg. ...
(1911–2006), television writer and novelist
* Burt Baskin
Burt "Butch" Baskin (December 17, 1913 December 24, 1967) was an American businessman who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 with business partner and brother-in-law Irv Robbins.
Early life
Burt Baskin was born in Streat ...
(1913–1967), business magnate and co-founder of Baskin-Robbins
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* David Berman (1903–1957), Jewish mobster who ran the Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel, one-time partner with Bugsy Siegel
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* Susan Berman (1945–2000), author, journalist, daughter of David Berman
* Thelma Bernstein (1910–2006), actress
* Fanny Brice
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(1891–1951), actress and comedian (transferred to Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park & Mortuary is a cemetery and mortuary located in the Westwood Village area of Los Angeles. It is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in Westwood, with an entrance from Glendon Avenue.
The cemetery was ...
in 1999)
* Boake Carter Harold Thomas Henry "Boake" Carter (28 September 1903 – 16 November 1944) was a British-American broadcast news commentator in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Early life
He was born in Baku, Russian Empire (now the capital of Azerbaijan), the son o ...
(1900–1944), journalist
* Lou Clayton Lou Clayton (also Lew Clayton, born Louis Finkelstein; 1890-1950) was an American song-and-dance vaudeville performer, best known for his teaming with Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson, as Clayton, Jackson, and Durante, or "The Three Sawdust Bums".
...
(1890–1950), entertainer
* Harry Einstein
Harry Einstein (May 6, 1904 – November 24, 1958), known professionally as Harry Parke and other pseudonyms, most commonly Parkyakarkus, was an American comedian, writer, and character actor. A specialist in Greek dialect comedy, he became famou ...
(1904–1958), comedian
* Leo F. Forbstein
Leo Frank Forbstein (October 16, 1892 – March 16, 1948) was an American film musical director and orchestra conductor who worked on more than 550 projects during a twenty-year period.
Early years
Forbstein was born in St. Louis, Missouri. H ...
(1892–1948), composer and conductor
* Mack Gordon
Mack Gordon (born Morris Gittler; June 21, 1904 – February 28, 1959) was an American composer and lyricist for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times in 11 years, including five consecutive years betwee ...
(1904–1959), composer and lyricist
* Don Hartman
Samuel Donald Hartman (18 November 1900, New York - 23 March 1958, Palm Springs, California) was an American screenwriter and director and former production head of Paramount Pictures. He and Stephen Morehouse Avery were nominated for the Acade ...
(1900–1958), director
* Herman W. Hellman
Herman W. Hellman (1843–1906) was a German-born businessman, banker, and real estate investor in Los Angeles, California.
Early life
Herman W. Hellman was born on September 25, 1843, in Reckendorf, Germany, Bavaria. He emigrated to the Unite ...
(1843–1906), German-born Jewish businessman, banker, and real estate investor
* Curly Howard
Jerome Lester Horwitz (; October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), known professionally as Curly Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He was best known as a member of the American comedy team the Three Stooges, which also featured his elder ...
(1903–1952), actor, comedian, member of The Three Stooges
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* Shemp Howard
Samuel Horwitz (March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955), known professionally as Shemp Howard, was an American actor and comedian. He was called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Lithuanian Yiddish, Litvak accent.
He is ...
(1895–1955), actor, comedian, member of The Three Stooges
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* David A. Karnofsky (1914-1969), medical oncologist
* Carl Laemmle
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Regarded as one of the most important o ...
(1867–1939), film executive, founder of Universal Pictures
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; he created the "Star" system
* Carl Laemmle Jr.
Carl Laemmle Jr. (born Julius Laemmle; April 28, 1908 – September 24, 1979) was an American film producer - studio executive and heir of Carl Laemmle, who had founded Universal Studios. He was head of production at the studio from 1928 to ...
(1908–1979), son of Carl Laemmle and studio executive
* Carla Laemmle (1909–2014), niece of Carl Laemmle and actress
* Solomon Lazard (1827–1916), 19th Century merchant and community leader
* Ruth Harriet Louise (1903–1940), photographer
* Edgar Magnin
Edgar Magnin (July 1, 1890 – July 17, 1984) was rabbi and spiritual leader of Wilshire Boulevard Temple (previously Congregation B'nai B'rith), the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles, California. Magnin served at the temple for 69 yea ...
(1890–1984), rabbi and spiritual leader
* Louis B. Mayer
Louis Burt Mayer (; born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1882 or 1884 or 1885 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industr ...
(1885–1957), a founder of the MGM
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film studios
* Carmel Myers
Carmel Myers (April 9, 1899 – November 9, 1980) was an American actress who achieved her greatest successes in silent film.
Early life
Myers was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Isidore Myers, a Russian-Jewish rabbi who was born in ...
(1899–1980), actress
* Kurt Neumann (1908–1958), motion picture director and producer
* Harry Rapf
Harry Rapf (16 October 1880, in New York City – 6 February 1949, in Los Angeles), was an American film producer.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family, Rapf began his career in 1917, and during a 20-year career became a well-known producer of ...
(1880–1949), motion picture producer and studio executive
* Joseph Rosenberg
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...
(1881-1971) Bank of America executive vice president and motion picture lender
* Mark Sandrich
Mark Sandrich (born Mark Rex Goldstein; October 26, 1900 – March 4, 1945) was an American film director, writer, and producer.
Early life
Sandrich was born in New York City on October 26, 1900 into a American Jews, Jewish family. His siste ...
(1900–1945), motion picture director
* Jack H. Skirball
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Early life
Jack H. Skirball was born in 1896 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. His father was an immigrant from Czech ...
(1896–1985), rabbi, film producer, real estate developer and philanthropist
* Abe Stern
Abe Stern (March 8, 1888 – July 12, 1951) was an American film producer. He produced 542 films between 1917 and 1929. He was a co-founder of Universal Studios.
He was born in Fulda, Germany, and died in Los Angeles County, California. ...
(1888–1951), motion picture producer
* Charles Vidor
Charles Vidor (born Károly Vidor; July 27, 1900June 4, 1959) was a Hungarian film director. Among his film successes are ''The Bridge'' (1929), ''The Tuttles of Tahiti'' (1942), ''The Desperadoes'' (1943), ''Cover Girl'' (1944), '' Together A ...
(1900–1959), motion picture director
* Harry Warner
Harry Morris Warner (born Hirsz Mojżesz Wonsal; December 12, 1881 – July 25, 1958) was an American studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry. Along with his three ...
(1881–1958), co-founder of Warner Brothers
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film studios
* Jack L. Warner
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(1892–1978), co-founder of Warner Brothers film studios, founder of Warner Bros. Records
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* Sam Warner
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(1887–1927), co-founder and first CEO of Warner Brothers film studios
* Conrad Wells
Conrad Wells (1892 New York, New York – January 2, 1930 Santa Monica, California) was an American cinematographer and film editor.
Biography
Wells began his film career as a camera assistant, becoming a full cameraman in 1919. He special ...
(born Abraham Fried) (1892–1930), cinematographer
* Osher Zilberstein
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(1888–1973), rabbi
References
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External links
Home of Peace Memorial Park
at Find a Grave
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Cemeteries in Los Angeles
Jewish cemeteries in California
Jews and Judaism in Los Angeles
Eastside Los Angeles
1901 establishments in California