Mount Zion Cemetery, 1030 S. Downey Road, East Los Angeles, California

Famous interments

Mount Zion has Yiddish writer

Lamed Shapiro Levi Yehoshua Shapiro (Yiddish: ל. שאַפּיראָ, born 1878, died 1948), better known as "''Lamed'' Shapiro", (''lamed'' is the Yiddish name of the letter ל), was an American Yiddish author. His stories are best known for such themes as mu ...

. Also buried at Zion are Samuel Weisberger – President Congregation Talmud Torah abt 1909 (aka after 1911 Breed Street Shul), Jacob Tanenbaum – Founder of the Talmud Torah congregation Etz Jacob. The congregation was named in his honor., Morris Soriano – Founding member of the Avat Shalom Society. Early member Congregation Avat Shalom...first Sephardic congregation in Los Angeles. Max Babin and Lena Hauph – Owners of the first Kosher restaurants in Los Angeles. American comedienne phenom Fanny Brice was originally buried at Home of Peace cemetery but in 1999, after the new Memorial Gardens area was unveiled at Pierce Bros, her ashes were moved to Westwood Memorial.

Current condition

Mount Zion's last burial was in the 1990s, possibly early 2000. Mount Zion has since been minimally restored. It is still in poor condition although in far better condition than in 2012. In 2013 the Friends of Mount Zion Cemetery performed basic restoration with money raised primarily in the Orthodox LA Jewish community.

Gallery

File:Gabriellehrer.JPG, Grave marker of Gabriel Lehrer in Mount Zion Cemetery File:Morrislehrer.JPG, Grave marker of Morris Lehrer in Mount Zion Cemetery

References

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