Please see the NOTE below the list about Maimonides Cemetery....
  
International Jewish Cemetery Project

Beth Olom:

2 Cypress Hills St., Brooklyn, NY 11208 718-277-6255 P.O. Box 211263, Woodhaven, NY 11421 The cemetery is jointly owned by three Manhattan congregations:

1. Shearith Israel,
8 West 70 St., New York, NY 10023; 
212-873-0300

2. B'nai Jeshurun, 270 West 89 St., New York, NY 10024; 212-787-7600

3. Shaare Tefilah, 250 East 79 St., New York, NY 10021; 212-535-8008

Records are available at the Cemetery Office and at each congregation; source SE Cypress Hills National Cemetery is closed to active burial. Its records are maintained at the Long Island National Cemetery. Contact information for the Long Island National Cemetery: Long Island National Cemetery 2040 Wellwood Avenue East Farmingdale (Farmingdale P.O.), NY 11735 tel: 516/454-4949 fax: 516/694-5422 e-Mail: abianco@cem.va.gov

B'nai Jeshurun: see Beth Olom above

Cypress Hills Cemetery:

625 Jamaica Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11208-1203; 718-277-2900

Overlooking Jamaica Bay, near Cypress Hills Cem., 
1851, from Postal & Koppman; Jewish Tourist's Guide to 
U.S.; (Jewish Publ. Soc., Phila., PA 1954), p.450" [note: 
It does not overlook Jamaica Bay. source FM and LC] 
This is a non-sectarian cemetery with some Jewish burials 
[one of 4 places used by the Noah Benevolent Society. In 
December 1849 they bought plots in Cypress Hills Cemetery. 
This was Noah Lodge Section 1 (in 1863 an ornamental fence 
was build around the section). A second plot was bought 
there in 1912 (section 14) source AL 
Cypress Hills now has to deal with vandalism. Nonetheless 
-- should you ever think about going there, it is 
well-tended, and very easy to research.

Source: Margot Feiner Conte; e-mail:MargotC@aol.com [Susan Walski had the following on the BBS. Since I do visit that area every 6-8 weeks I can take photographs for you. I am not the worlds greatest photographer and would like to be reimbursed for the film. All I would want is to be paid for the film and developing. No charge for my time. Susan Walski; e-mail: swalski@panix.com

Maimonides Cemetery: 895 Jamaica Ave., Brooklyn, NY; 718-347-0095 source LS, LC Records are available at Maimonides-Elmont Cemetery Office (see Long Island listing in NY - L-Z file for Maimonides Cemetery - Elmont) {10690}.

Mount Hope Cemetery: 895 Jamaica Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11208 718-347-0095;

In 1883 the Noah Benevolent Society bought 136 plots in Mount Hope Cem. This was Noah Lodge Section 2. In 1904 the paths in the section were paved. Some were immediately sold to families to raise money. By 1934, all the plots had been sold to families; From the 85th Anniversary Souvenir Journal (1934); source AL & SW Records are available from Maimonides - Elmont (see Long Island listing in NY - L-Z file for Maimonides Cemetery - Elmont).

Salem Field Cemetery: (Temple Emanu-El)
775 Jamaica Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11208
718-277-3898
source SW [Salem Fields is a very "fancy" almost upbeat (if 
that's possible) cemetery. It is a collection of many of 
the "Our Crowd" family -- and many names are instantly 
recognizeable. Many of the plots and mausoleums were 
purchased before the 1900's. (I think the inception of the 
cemetery and the 1850's)....we do have a plot that was 
bought in the 1930's. I know that plots are no longer for 
sale. It's not your typical New York cemetery -- there's 
lot of room:) and will never be crowded. There are winding 
paths -- a tremendous amount of Jewish history. It's not a 
very democratic cemetery -- there is a definite distinction 
between the upper, the upper middle, and lower middle 
class. Unfortunately, it's in a terrible neighborhood, 
(just off of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway), and Salem 
Fields, much like it's "related cemetery (up the hill)"] 

Shaare Tefilah: See Beth Olom above

Shearith Israel: See Beth Olom above

Temple Eman-El: (see Salem Fields above)

Washington Cemetery: 5400 Bay Parkway (corner McDonald Ave.), Bklyn, NY 11230-3346 718-377-8690; contact...Elvira (or anyone else as they are very helpful); fax 718-377-8949 source unless otherwise indicated: Phyllis Blumenfeld; plblum@dorsai.dorsai.org [Raymond Whitzman, 5878 McAlear Ave., Cote St. Luc, Que, Canada H4W 2H3 also has information about this cemetery.]

At the office in Washington Cemetery, there is a set of ledgers that list births in chronological order, giving the decedent's address and the cause of death, the name of the burial society and possibly additional facts. That may provide information now missing from an old, eroded gravestone. source: Judy Baston; e-mail: Jrbaston@aol.com

Soyamaven@AOL.COM To: NYBROOKLYN-L@rootsweb.com Dear Brooklyn-Rootsers, etc., The following is an expanded answer to a question about the Maimonides Cemetery that was asked and that I answered on the LI-Rooters@genexchange.com list: There are 2 Maimonides Cemeteries, both owned and operated by the Maimonides Benevolent Society: the first was opened circa 1850 and is at 895 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn and the second was opened in 1922 and is on Elmont Road, immediately north of Beth David Cemetery (it is separate from Beth David) in the Hamlet of Elmont, Town of Hempstead, Nassau County. The office for both is located at the Elmont location and can be reached by calling either: 718/347-0095 (NYC tie line) . or 516/775-6222 While the Maimonides Benevolent Society was created by German Jews, mostly Reform Jews, in the mid 1800s as a mutual aid and burial society, the cemetery has always operated according to the strictest interpretation of halacha (Jewish law). The secretary-treasurer of the Society as well as a cemetery manager work out of the office building at the entrance to the cemetery located in Elmont. Rabbi Moishe Ben Maimon, Maimonides, also known as the Rambam (that's a heck of a name for a football player, isn't it?) was born in 1135 C.E. in Córdoba, Spain and died in 1204 C.E. in Cairo, Egypt. >From www.infoplease.com: Maimonides [Pronunciation: [mImon´idEz] or Moishe (Moses) ben Maimon [Pronunciation: [mI´mun] ] 1135–1204, Jewish scholar, physician, and philosopher, the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, b. Córdoba, Spain, d. Cairo. He is sometimes called Rambam, from the initials of the words Rabbi Moses ben Maimon. His organization and systemization of the corpus of Jewish oral law, is called the Mishneh Torah [the Torah Reviewed] and is still used as a standard compilation of halakah. He also produced a number of discourses on legal topics; a work on logic; a treatise on the calendar; and several medical books, including an important work on hygiene. His great philosophical work is the Moreh Nevukhim (tr., Guide for the Perplexed, 1963), written in Arabic, in which he explained the esoteric ideas in the Bible, formulated a proof of the existence of G-d, expounded the principles of creation, and elucidated baffling metaphysical and religious problems. The Moreh Nevukhim, which reflects Maimonides's great knowledge of Aristotelian philosophy, dominated Jewish thought and exerted a profound influence upon Christian thinkers. The Oath of Maimonides The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. May the love for my art actuate me at all time; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children. May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain. Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements. Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today. Oh, G-d, Thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling. I hope this information is useful or, at least interesting. Sincerely, Walter Greenspan

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