United Jewish Cemetery is a

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cemetery, located at 3400 Montgomery Road in the Evanston neighborhood, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The cemetery was opened by members of Bene Israel and B'nai Jeshurum congregations in 1862. The first burial was Issac Fredrick on February 18, 1850, when ground was first consecrated. Over the years, as the two congregations opened or acquired (through merger) other cemeteries, UJC grew to six graveyards. In 2008, UJC became a part of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. (www.jcemcin.org), which merged almost all of the area's 26 Jewish cemeteries into a single organization.

Jewish Civil War Memorial

The Jewish Civil War Memorial is an obelisk, which was completed in 1868. It first honored one fallen Jewish Civil War soldier from Cincinnati, Lt. Louis Reitler, who was killed in battle in 1862. His name is inscribed on the east side of the memorial. The graves of five other Union Veterans lie near. The memorial now includes the names of local Jewish soldiers from World War I and World War II. The United Jewish Cemetery rededicated its Veterans Memorial on Memorial Day 2008, with a Marine Corps Honor Guard and a

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. The names of the fallen heroes were read aloud. : Civil War: Marx Esslinger, Joseph Ettlinger (Pvt. 5th Ohio),http://users.adelphia.net/~piobair/roster.html Jonas Goldsmith, Sam Keisser, Adolph Mangold and Louis Reitler. :World War I: Robert Livingston, James Rind and R. Robert Shroder. :World War II: John E. Davis; Robert F. Goldenberg; Richard J. Herman; James Herzberg; Stuart Allan Kaplan; Samuel L. Kessler; Tedd R. Levy; Leon Meyer Mack; James M. Pollock; Nathaniel Rosenthal; George E. Rosing; Dr. Howard M. Schriver; Harold Silverman; Bernard Harry Simpson; Richard J. Sloane; Milford Wirt Solomon; Robert Sanford Waldman; Ferdinand L. Weston and Jesse Myron Wolf.

Notable burials

* Alfred M. Cohen (1859–1949), lawyer and politician *

Louis Grossmann Louis Grossmann (February 24, 1863 – September 21, 1926) was an Austrian-born Jewish-American rabbi and professor. Life Grossmann was born on February 24, 1863, in Vienna, Austria, the son of Rabbi Ignaz Grossmann and Nettie Rosenbaum. His brot ...

(1863–1926), rabbi * Moritz Loth (1832–1913), businessman * Robert Middleton (1911–1977), Actor * Julian Morgenstern (1881–1976), Rabbi * Theodore Albert Peyser (1873–1937), US Congressman *

Isaac Mayer Wise Isaac Mayer Wise (29 March 1819, Lomnička – 26 March 1900, Cincinnati) was an American Reform rabbi, editor, and author. At his death he was called "the foremost rabbi in America". Early life Wise was born on 29 March 1819 in Steingrub in B ...

(1819–1900), Rabbi * Leo Wise (1849–1933), newspaper editor and publisher *

David Urbansky David Orbansky or 'Urbansky' was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He earned the Medal of Honor for his gallantry in action against enemy Confederate States Army forces in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, in 1862 and again at the ...

(1843–1897), Civil War hero who was the first Jew to be awarded a Medal of Honor. *

George Zepin George Zepin (June 8, 1878 – April 9, 1963) was a Ukrainian-born American rabbi and administrator of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Life Zepin was born on June 8, 1878, in Kyiv, Russia, the son of Otto Zepin and Hannah Matzov. He ...

(1878–1963), rabbi

References

* ''Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors'', American Guide Series, The Weisen-Hart Press, May 1943, p. 317 ;

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Jewish Cemetery Rededicates Veterans Memorial

Indian Hill vet leads effort to rededicate monument

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Jewish Civil War Memorial

Notable burials

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