and stage actress, theatrical producer, wife of Jack Gilford Jennie Goldstein (1896–1960), Yiddish theater actress Selig Grossinger (d. 1931), founder of Grossinger's resort Adolph Held (1885–1969), New York City alderman, Forward editor and manager, labor activist Max Jacobson (1900–1979), physician often known as Dr. Feelgood Marvin Kaplan (1927–2016), actor Nathan Kaplan (1891–1923), gangster Alan King (1927–2004), comedian Harry Kopp (1880–1943), lawyer and politician Abraham Landau (1895–1935), mobster Eddie Layton (1925–2004), organist for the New York Yankees Aaron Lebedeff (1873–1960), Yiddish theater actor Fred Lebow (1932–1994), founder the New York City Marathon and president of the New York Road Runners Club Raphael Lemkin (1900–1959), initiator of the Genocide Convention Shifra Lerer (1915–2011), Yiddish theater actress Jeanne Manford (1920-2013), American teacher and LGBTQ+ activist Menashe Oppenheim (1905–1973), Yiddish theater and film actor Sam Paul (1874–1927), gambler, underworld figure, businessman, and political organizer Jack Pearl (1894–1982), vaudeville performer and radio comedian Nathan D. Perlman (1887–1952), U.S. congressman Molly Picon Kalich (1898–1992), Yiddish theater actress Gregory Ratoff (1893–1960), Yiddish theater and Hollywood actor and director Jack Rechtzeit (1903–1988), Yiddish theater actor Morris D. Reiss (–1949), lawyer and member of the New York State Assembly Miriam Kressyn Rexite (1910–1996), Yiddish theater actress and singer Seymour Rexite (1908–2002), Yiddish theater actor and singer Solomon Schechter (1847–1915), Conservative Jewish theologian Fred Schmertz (1888–1976), founder member of the Millrose Games and the meet director from 1934 to 1974 Maurice Schwartz (1891–1960), Yiddish theater actor Ben Selvin (1898–1980), jazz musician William I. Sirovich (1882–1939), U.S. congressman Menasha Skulnik (1892–1970), Yiddish theater actor Bertha Kalich Spachner (died 1874–1939), Yiddish theater actress Thea Tewi (1902–1999), sculptor and lingerie designer Bessie Thomashefsky (1873–1962), Yiddish theater actress Boris Thomashevsky (1866–1939), Yiddish theater actor Emanuel Weiss (1906–1944), organized crime figure, member of Murder, Inc., and associate of Louis Buchalter Peter Wiernik (1865–1936), Yiddish journalist, newspaper editor, historian One British Commonwealth war grave, of a private of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps of World War I References External links Mount Hebron Cemetery website List of societies that have plots at Mount Hebron Cemetery New York Times Article Legal Dispute Grezinsky v. Mount Hebron Cemetery New York Law Journal Legal Dispute Grezinsky v. Mount Hebron Cemetery 1909 establishments in New York City Belarusian-Jewish culture in New York City Jewish cemeteries in New York City Cemeteries in Queens, New York Jews and Judaism in Queens, New York Flushing, Queens Kew Gardens Hills, Queens Yiddish culture in