New York NY
GENERAL STATE OF NEW YORK INFORMATION:
Jewish Communal Register of NYC 1917-18 and all editions of the American Jewish Year Book, including those with national directories of local organizations, can be searched at the American Jewish Committee Archives. YIVO's Workmen's Circle collection is now RG [Record Group] 575, titled "Workmen's Circle 1893-1972," consisting of 296 linear feet.
NY State, Department of State, Division of Cemeteries.
Jewish Genealogical Society of the Capital District
Jewish Genealogy Society of Buffalo
Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (NYC)
Jewish Genealogical Society of Rochester
Orthodox Jewish Archives of Agudath Israel
84 William Street
New York, NY 10038
(212) 797-9000
In addition to the American Jewish Yearbook and the WPA book, an excellent source on landsmanshaftn is the "Jewish Communal Register of New York City, 1917-1918" that book also lists NYC Jewish cemeteries; for many, acreage is included--a very useful bit of info when one is "cold calling" every cemetery, i.e. find out which are the largest and call those first. The book describes Jewish cemeteries that once existed in Manhattan on 32nd, 89th, and 105th Streets, and on Madison Avenue in the 70's. Beginning in the 1850's, which brought soaring real estate prices and legislation restricting further interments in Manhattan, remains were moved from those burial places to new cemeteries in Queens and Brooklyn. Consequently, Bayside, Beth El, and other cemeteries contain the graves of people who died years before the cemeteries opened. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [February 2001]
New York State Cemeteries Name/Location Inventory 1995-1997 , compiled by the Association for Municipal Historians of New York State (3 vols.). Heritage Books, the publisher, donated copies to New York Public Library, New York State Library in Albany, and several other libraries in New York State so they should be available via interlibrary loan. The inventory, based on information supplied by local historians, is organized by county, and then by town. Data includes type of cemetery (e.g. religious), status (active or inactive), founding date, location, and contact person or organization, but many entries have incomplete information. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [March 2001]
SYNAGOGUES IN NY:
http://www.maven.co.il/synagogues//a> [May 2006]
New York State Insurance Commissioner has information about defunct burial sites. NY State Insurance Dept., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 123 William Street, New York, NY 10038, 212-341-6400.
New York State Department of State, Division of Cemeteries, 270 Broadway, New York City 10007 (212-587-5713) has address and additional information about each cemetery: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Liquidations Bureau, 123 William Street, New York, NY 10038, For general information call 212-341-6400. The bureau "effected the final dissolution and distribution of assets for 28 burial societies and other fraternal benefit organizations."
Workmen's Circle (U.S.)
- Title: Records, [ca. 1897-1975] Description: 258 linear ft. Notes: Established 1892 by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, primarily for the purpose of mutual aid. Became fraternal order, 1900; chartered 1905. ... and Cemetery Department, 1904-1937. YIVO collections are in Yiddish, Russian, Polish, English, Hebrew, and other European and non-European languages. Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY. Control No.: NXYH89-A475 [December 2000]
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American Jewish Committee Archives. YIVO's Workmen's Circle collection is now RG [Record Group] 575, titled "Workmen's Circle 1893-1972," consisting of 296 linear feet. [August 2009]
Organizations such as burial societies are listed in the 1907-08 edition of the American Jewish Yearbook , which contains hundreds of landsmanshaften and other groups. In 1938, the Yiddish Writers Group of the WPA (Works Progress Organization) conducted a survey of landsmanshaften and family circles. The books detailing the results of the survey and the organizations that responded are available in the Jewish Division of the New York Public Library. Most of it is in Yiddish, but a list of the groups is in English. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Note: Flora and Herbert Gursky of Great Falls, Virginia, compiled a list of burials in the New York City area from the landsmannshaft societies of Lysyanka and Tagancha, Ukraine, and of Raciaz (Racionz), Sokolka and Kuznica in Poland. The information includes the name of the individual and, when available, birth and death dates, age, Hebrew name, and family relationship annotations. For information concerning specific individuals, please write to them, enclosing a SASE, at 10201 Walker Lake Drive, Great Falls, VA, 22066.
New York City surrounding area cemetery information: NY JGS Cemetery Page.
(mostly non-Jewish cemetery information)[2000]
(mostly non-Jewish Long Island cemetery information) [2000]
Queens, and the rest of New York State
LONG ISLAND: (Nassau and Suffolk Counties) See also New York City,
Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island Contact information at: http://www.jgsli.org/
Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (NYC)
New York City surrounding area cemetery information: NY JGS Cemetery Page.
Rootsweb: mostly non-Jewish cemetery information) [2000]
LI Genealogy: mostly non-Jewish cemetery information [2000]
New York State Insurance Commissioner has information about defunct burial sites. NY State Insurance Dept., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 123 William Street, New York, NY 10038, (212) 341-6400. The bureau "effected the final dissolution and distribution of assets for 28 burial societies and other fraternal benefit organizations."
New York State Department of State, Division of Cemeteries, 270 Broadway, New York City 10007 (212) 587-5713 has address and additional information about each cemetery: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Organizations such as burial societies are listed in the 1907-08 edition of the American Jewish Yearbook , which contains hundreds of landsmanshaften and other groups. In 1938, the Yiddish Writers Group of the WPA (Works Progress Organization) conducted a survey of landsmanshaften and family circles. The books detailing the results of the survey and the organizations that responded are available in the Jewish Division of the New York Public Library. Most of it is in Yiddish, but a list of the groups is in English. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;
Note: Flora and Herbert Gursky of Great Falls, Virginia, compiled a list of burials in the New York City area from the landsmannshaft societies of Lysyanka and Tagancha, Ukraine, and of Raciaz (Racionz), Sokolka and Kuznica in Poland. The information includes the name of the individual and, when available, birth and death dates, age, Hebrew name, and family relationship annotations. For information concerning specific individuals, please write to them, enclosing a SASE, at 10201 Walker Lake Drive, Great Falls, VA, 22066.
Workmen's Circle (U.S.) Title: Records, [ca. 1897-1975]
Description: 258 linear ft.
Notes: Established 1892 by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, primarily for the purpose of mutual aid. Became fraternal order, 1900; chartered 1905. ... and Cemetery Department, 1904-1937. YIVO collections are in Yiddish, Russian, Polish, English, Hebrew, and other European and non-European languages. Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY
Control No.: NXYH89-A475 [December 2000]
NEW YORK CITY -- QUEENS
Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (NYC) and Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island
NEW YORK CITY -- METROPOLITAN AREA
Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (NYC)
Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island
Orthodox Jewish Archives of Agudath Israel
84 William Street
New York, NY 10038
(212) 797-9000
New York Landsmanshaftn and Other Jewish Organizations:
Workmen's Circle (U.S.):
- Title: Records, [ca. 1897-1975] Description: 258 linear ft. Notes: Established 1892 by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, primarily for the purpose of mutual aid. Became fraternal order, 1900; chartered 1905. ... and Cemetery Department, 1904-1937. YIVO collections are in Yiddish, Russian, Polish, English, Hebrew, and other European and non-European languages. Location: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, NY. Control No.: NXYH89-A475 [December 2000]
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American Jewish Committee Archives. YIVO's Workmen's Circle collection is now RG [Record Group] 575, titled "Workmen's Circle 1893-1972," consisting of 296 linear feet. [August 2009]
Metropolitan New York Area Cemeteries Indexed by Cemetery Name
The JGS of New York's Burial Societies in the New York Metropolitan Area database [February 2001]
A map of the cemeteries of the NY City area. Jewish Cemeteries in the NY and NJ Area with driving directions [2000]
Information for 135 cemeteries, and links to Yahoo! Maps - Driving Directions
In addition to the American Jewish Yearbook and the WPA book, an excellent source on landsmanshaftn is the "Jewish Communal Register of New York City, 1917-1918" that book also lists NYC Jewish cemeteries; for many, acreage is included--a very useful bit of info when one is "cold calling" every cemetery, i.e. find out which are the largest and call those first. The book describes Jewish cemeteries that once existed in Manhattan on 32nd, 89th, and 105th Streets, and on Madison Avenue in the 70's. Beginning in the 1850's, which brought soaring real estate prices and legislation restricting further interments in Manhattan, remains were moved from those burial places to new cemeteries in Queens and Brooklyn. Consequently, Bayside, Beth El, and other cemeteries contain the graves of people who died years before the cemeteries opened. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., [February 2001] ]
New York State Cemeteries Name/Location Inventory 1995-1997, compiled by the Association for Municipal Historians of New York State (3 vols.). Heritage Books, the publisher, donated copies to New York Public Library, New York State Library in Albany, and several other libraries in New York State so they should be available via interlibrary loan. The inventory, based on information supplied by local historians, is organized by county, and then by town. Data includes type of cemetery (e.g. religious), status (active or inactive), founding date, location, and contact person or organization, but many entries have incomplete information. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [March 2001
Why so many cemeteries straddle the Queens-Brooklyn border: "Eternal Rest Grant Unto Them" Long Island Newsday [January 2011]
"The Cemetery Belt" Long Island Newsday [January 2011]
Brooklyn Eagle Archive, 20 Jun 1886 article about NY area Jewish cemeteries.
UPDATE: NY Times article about the demise of burial societies, and the impact of same on cemeteries in NY and elsewhere. [Dec. 2013]
SYNAGOGUES IN NY metro area [2004]
NY area synagogues [December 2002]
New York State Insurance Commissioner has information about defunct burial sites. NY State Insurance Dept., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 123 William Street, New York, NY 10038, 212-341-6400. The bureau "effected the final dissolution and distribution of assets for 28 burial societies and other fraternal benefit organizations."
New York State Department of State, Division of Cemeteries, 270 Broadway, New York City 10007 (212-587-5713) has address and additional information about each cemetery: Joel Maxman
Organizations such as burial societies are listed in the 1907-08 edition of the American Jewish Yearbook , which contains hundreds of landsmanshaften and other groups. In 1938, the Yiddish Writers Group of the WPA (Works Progress Organization) conducted a survey of landsmanshaften and family circles. The books detailing the results of the survey and the organizations that responded are available in the Jewish Division of the New York Public Library. Most of it is in Yiddish, but a list of the groups is in English. Source: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
New York Landmanshaften [February 2010]
Note: Flora and Herbert Gursky of Great Falls, Virginia, compiled a list of burials in the New York City area from the landsmannshaft societies of Lysyanka and Tagancha, Ukraine, and of Raciaz (Racionz), Sokolka and Kuznica in Poland. The information includes the name of the individual and, when available, birth and death dates, age, Hebrew name, and family relationship annotations. For information concerning specific individuals, please write to them, enclosing a SASE, at 10201 Walker Lake Drive, Great Falls, VA, 22066.
CEMETERY or CONGREGATION |
CITY or TOWN, and STATE | WHERE LISTED | |
Acacia Cemetery | Ozone Park | NYC | |
Agudas Achim Cemetery | Setauket, LI, NY | NY: State | |
Ahavas Zion Cemetery | NJ - Newark | NJ - Newark | |
Ahavath Chesed Synagogue | Ridgewood, Queens: see Linden Hill Cem. | NY State | |
Ahavath Joseph Cong. Cem. | Hawthorne, NJ | NJ | |
Arlington Jewish Cemetery | Newark, NJ | NJ - Newark | |
Baron Hirsh Cemetery | Staten Island, NY | NYC | |
Bayshore Jewish Center | Bayshore, see Oakwood Cemetery | NY State | |
Bayside Cemetery | Ozone Park, Queens, | NYC | |
Belmont Ave. Cemetery | Newark NJ | NJ - Newark | |
Beth Abraham: | Newark, NJ, see Union Fields-Beth Abr. | Newark, NJ | |
Beth Abraham Cemetery | E. Brunswick, NJ | NJ | |
Beth David Cemetery | Elmont, LI | NY State | |
Beth David Memorial Park | Kenelworth, NJ | NJ | |
Beth David Memorial Park | Union, NJ | NJ | |
Beth El Cemetery | Paramus, NJ | NJ | |
Beth El Cemetery: | Glendale, Queens, NY, see Beth-El Cemetery, Ridgewood, NY | NYC | |
Beth Israel Memorial Park | Woodbridge, NJ | NJ | |
Beth Moses Cemetery | Farmingdale, LI, see Beth Moses Cem., Pinelawn, NY | NY State | |
Beth Moses Cemetery | Pinelawn, LI, NY | NY State | |
Beth Olom Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY | NYC | |
Beth-El Cemetery | Paramus, NJ | NJ | |
Beth-El Cemetery | Ridgewood, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Bnai Abraham Cemetery | Union, NJ | NJ | |
Bnai Israel & Samuel | Paterson, NJ | NJ | |
Bnai Jeshurun | Manhattan: see Beth Olom Cemetery | NYC | |
Cedar Grove Cemetery | Flushing, Queens, NY: see Mount Hebron Cemetery | NYC | |
Cedar Park Cemetery | Ridgewood, Queens, NY, see Linden Hill Cem. | NYC | |
Central Synagogue | |||
Cong. Agudas Israel Cem. | Newburgh, NY | NY State | |
Cong. Anshe Emeth Cem. | Deans, NJ: see South Brunswick-NJ | NJ | |
Cong. Shaare Zedek Cem. | Queens | NYC | |
Cong. Shearith Israel | Manhattan | NYC | |
Cypress Hills Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY | NYC | |
Degel Yegudo Cemetery | Deans, NJ: see Floral Park Cem. | NJ | |
East Ridgelawn Cemetery | Clifton, NJ: see Menorah Cemetery, Clifton NJ | NJ | |
Evergreen Cemetery | Hillside, NJ | NJ | |
Fair Lawn Cemetery | Fair Lawn, NJ | NJ | |
Ferncliff Cem. & Crematory | Hartsdale, NY | NY State | |
Floral Park Cemetery | Monmouth Jct., NJ | NJ | |
George Washington Cemetery | Paramus, NJ | NJ | |
Grove St. Cemetery | Newark/E.Orange NJ | NJ - Newark | |
Highland View Cemetery | Ridgewood, Queens, NY: see Mount Judah Cemetery | NYC | |
Hungarian Union Fields Cem | Ridgewood, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Huntington Cemetery | Huntington, LI, NY | NY State | |
Kenisco Cemetery | Valhalla, NY | NY State | |
King David Cemetery | Putnam Valley, NY | NY State | |
King Solomon Memorial Park | Clifton, NJ:see W. Ridgelawn Cemetery, Clifton | NJ | |
Kings Park Cemetery | Kings Park, NY | NY State | |
Knollwood Park Cemetery | Ridgewood, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Last United Synag. Cemetery | Calverton, NY | NY State | |
Linden Hill Cemetery | Ridgewood, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Long Island National Cemetery | Pinelawn, LI, NY | NY State | |
Machpelah Cemetery | Glendale, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Maimonides Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY | NYC | |
Maimonides Cemetery | Elmont, LI, NY | NYC | |
Manhattan Cemetery | Manhattan | NYC | |
Maple Grove Cemetery | Kew Gardens, Queens, NY | Kew Gardens, Queens, NY | |
Menorah Cemetery | Clifton, NJ | NJ | |
Meretz Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY: see Washington Cemetery, Brooklyn | NYC | |
Mokom Sholom Cemetery | Ozone Park, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Montefiore Cemetery | St. Albans, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Mount Ararat Cemetery | Farmingdale, LI, NY | NY State | |
Mount Carmel Cemetery | New Glendale, LI, NY: see New Mount Carmel Cemetery | NY State | |
Mount Carmel Cemetery | Glendale, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Mount Hebron Cemetery | Flushing, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Mount Judah Cemetery | Ridgewood, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Mount Lebanon Cemetery | Glendale, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Mount Lebanon Cemetery | Iselin, NJ: see New Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Iselin | NJ | |
Mount Moriah Cemetery | Fairview, NJ | NJ | |
Mount Neboh Cemetery | Glendale, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Mount Pleasant Cemetery | Hawthorne, NY | NY State | |
Mount Zion Cemetery | Maspeth, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Mt. Eden Cemetery | Hawthorne, NY | NY State | |
Mt. Golda Cemetery | Huntington, LI, NY | NY State | |
Mt. Hope Cemetery | Cypress Hills, NY | NYC | |
Mt. Hope Cemetery | Hastings-on-Hudson, NY | NY State | |
Mt. Richmond Cemetery | Staten Island, NY | NYC | |
Mt. Zion Cemetery (New) | NJ: Lyndhurst | NJ | |
New Montefiore Cemetery | Pinelawn, LI, NY: see New Montefiore, W. Babylon, NY | NY State | |
New Montefiore Cemetery | West Babylon, NY | NY State | |
New Mount Carmel Cemetery | Glendale, Queens, NY | NYC | |
New Mount Lebanon Cem. | Iselin, NJ | NJ | |
New Mt. Zion Cemetery | Lyndhurst, NJ | NJ | |
New Union Field Cemetery | Queens: (Ridgewood) see Beth El Cem. | NYC | |
New Washington Cemetery | Deans, NJ | NJ | |
Oakwood Cemetery | Bayshore, LI, NY | NY State | |
Oheb Shalom Cemetery | Hillside, NJ | NJ | |
Old Montefiore Cemetery | St. Albans, Queens, NY: see Montefiore Cemetery, | NYC | |
Patchogue Hebrew Congreg. | Holbrook, NY | NY State | |
Pinelawn Memorial Park & Cem. | Pinelawn, LI, NY | NY State | |
Riverside Cemetery | Saddlebrook, NJ | NJ | |
Salem Fields Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY | NYC | |
Shaare Tefilah | Manhattan: see Beth Olom Cemetery | NYC | |
Sharey Tefilo Cemetery | Montclair, NJ | NJ | |
Sharon Gardens Cemetery | see Kenisco Cemetery | NY State | |
Shearith Israel | Manhattan: see Beth Olom Cemetery | NYC | |
Shearith Israel Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY: see Beth Olom Cemetery | NYC | |
Silver Lake Cemetery | Staten Island, NY | NYC | |
Stephen Wise Free Synag. Cem. | Hastings-on-Hudson | NY State | |
Talmud Torah Cemetery | Newark, NJ | NJ | |
Temple Bnai Jeshurun | Short Hills, NJ: see Belmont Ave. Cem. | NJ | |
Temple Bnai Zion | Bloomfield, NJ: see Menorah Cemetery, Clifton NJ | NY | |
Temple Emanu-El | |||
Temple Israel Cemetery | Hastings-on-Hudson | NY State | |
Union Field Cemetery | Ridgewood, Queens, NY | NYC | |
Union Fields-Beth Abraham Cem. | Irvington/Newark | NJ - Newark | |
United Hebrew Cemetery | Staten Island, NY | NYC | |
Washington Cemetery | Brooklyn, NY | NYC | |
Washington Cemetery | Deans, NJ: see New Washington | NJ | |
Wellwood Cemetery | Farmingdale, LI, NY: see Wellwood Cemetery, Pinelawn, NY | NY State | |
Wellwood Cemetery | Pinelawn, LI, NY | NY State | |
West Ridgelawn Cemetery | Clifton, NJ | NJ | |
Westchester Hills Free Synag. | Hastings-on-Hudson | NY State |