Mount Zion Cemetery is a large

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located in

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. The first burial was in 1893, and as of 2015, more than 210,000 individuals had been buried there. It is noted for its memorial to those who died in the

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. The ...

Mount Zion Cemetery, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Its grounds cover approximately 78 acres, and are divided into hundreds of plots, or gates, by

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en, synagogues, or families.

Notable burials

* Herman M. Albert (1901–1947), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman * Birdie Amsterdam (1901–1996), lawyer, judge, and

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] justice * William Cohen (? –1922), U.S. Army sergeant killed by troops of

Pancho Villa Francisco "Pancho" Villa (, Orozco rebelled in March 1912, both for Madero's continuing failure to enact land reform and because he felt insufficiently rewarded for his role in bringing the new president to power. At the request of Madero's c ...

on U.S. soil in the Glenn Springs raid *

Bernard Drachman Rabbi Dr. Bernard Drachman (June 27, 1861, in New York City – March 12, 1945 in New York City) was a leader of Orthodox Judaism in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Biography Drachman was born to parents who were ...

(1861–1945), rabbi *

Morris Michael Edelstein Morris Michael Edelstein (February 5, 1888 – June 4, 1941) was a Polish-born Congressional Representative and lawyer from the state of New York, serving from 1940 to 1941. Biography Edelstein was born in Meseritz (Międzyrzec Podlaski), ...

(1888–1941), US Congressman * Isidore Einstein (1880–1938), federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition * Abraham Harawitz (1879–1935), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman, Municipal Court Justice * Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012), composer and conductor * Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), lyricist *

Naftali Herz Imber Naftali Herz Imber ( he, , yi, ; December 27, 1856 – October 8, 1909) was a Jewish Hebrew-language poet, most notable for writing "Hatikvah", the poem that became the basis for the Israeli national anthem. Biography Naftali Herz Imber ...

(1856–1909), poet, lyricist, and composer of

Hatikva Hatikvah ( he, הַתִּקְוָה, haTīqvā, ; ) is the national anthem of the State of Israel. Part of 19th-century Jewish poetry, the theme of the Romantic composition reflects the 2,000-year-old desire of the Jewish people to return ...

, the Israeli national anthem. Disinterred and reburied in Israel in 1953. *

Mathilde Krim Mathilde Krim ( he, מתילדה קרים; née Galland; July 9, 1926 – January 15, 2018) was a medical researcher and the founding chairman of amfAR, American Foundation for AIDS Research. Biography Mathilde Galland was born in Como, Italy t ...

(1926–2018), medical researcher * Irving L. Levey (1898–1970), New York State Supreme Court justice * Edna Luby (1884–1928), actress and comedian * Theresa Moers (1893–1924), killed by the boxer Kid McCoy * Herman Weiss (about 1869–1934), New York assemblyman *

Nathanael West Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American writer and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: ''Miss Lonelyhearts'' (1933) and ''The Day of the Locust'' (1939), set r ...

(1903–1940), author and screenwriter *

Eva Zeisel Eva Striker Zeisel (born Éva Amália Striker, November 13, 1906 – December 30, 2011) was a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her f ...

(1906–2011), industrial designer

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External links

* * Jewish cemeteries in New York City Cemeteries in Queens, New York Maspeth, Queens 1893 establishments in New York (state) {{QueensNY-geo-stub