Mount Moriah Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey)

Mount Moriah Cemetery
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Details
Established1910
Location
685 Farivew Avenue
Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey
CountryUnited States
TypeJewish
No. of graves28,000+
Websitemountmoriahcemeterynj.org
Find a GraveMount Moriah Cemetery
Entrance on Broad Avenue looking to the western slope of the Hudson Palisades

Mount Moriah Cemetery is a burial ground in Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey, in the United States, located on the western slopes of the Hudson Palisades, nearby the Fairview Cemetery.[1]

Moriah (Hebrew: מוֹרִיָּה‎, Modern: Moriyya, Tiberian: Môriyyā) (Arabic: مروة Marwah) is the name given to a mountain by the Book of Genesis, in which context it is the location of the sacrifice of Isaac.

Notable interments

  • Pesach Ackerman (1928–2013), Rabbi of Meseritz Synagogue[2]
  • Camilla Frydan (1887–1949), Austrian-born pianist, singer, composer and songwriter
  • Robert P. Grover (1916–1942), first Jewish serviceman from Jersey City to die in WWII[3]
  • Russell Harding (d. 2008), New York City administrator[4]
  • Arthur George Klein (1904–1968), United States Representative (NY)
  • Ira Rubin (1930–2013), American professional contract bridge player[5]
  • Garry Winogrand (1928–1984), street photographer
  • Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011), American medical physicist, and co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mt. Moriah Jewish Cemetery". Bergen County: Fairview. Jewish Cemetery Project. 2009. Retrieved 2013-10-02.
  2. ^ Sussman, Lesley (June 20, 2013). "Rabbi Pesach Ackerman of Anshe Meseritz dies at 84". amNewYork.
  3. ^ "NJCU:Robert P. Grover".
  4. ^ Buettner, Russ (October 7, 2012). "Former City Official's Blog Chronicled His Fall From Grace and Plans for Suicide". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Levin, Jay (February 7, 2013). "Ira Rubin, world champion bridge player, dies at 82". (Bergen Record) North Jersey.com. Retrieved 2013-02-09.

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