Maimonides Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, within the Cemetery Belt and immediately adjacent to Cypress Hills Cemetery. It was established in 1853 by the Maimonides Benevolent Society.[2] The organization now functions as a nonprofit and continues to conduct the cemetery’s administration as well as that of a second location, also referred to as Maimonides Cemetery, in Elmont, New York.[3] It is only accessible by appointment.[4]
Notable Burials
- Dorothy Fields (1904-1974), Broadway librettist and lyricist
- Israel F. Fischer (1858-1940), Congressman and judge
- Marcus Loew (1870-1927), motion picture industry magnate and creator of MGM Studios
- Joseph Schenck (1876-1961), film studio executive and founder of 20th Century Fox
References
- ^ Leonard, John Henry (1901). The Leonard manual of the cemeteries of New York and vicinity. New York, J. H. Leonard. p. 52. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ^ Amanik, Allan; Fletcher, Kami (18 March 2020). Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-4968-2792-0. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ^ “ABOUT US”. MAIMONIDES CEMETERIES. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
- ^ Barnes, J. (23 October 2025). “The spookiest, vibiest spots in the city’s ‘cemetery belt’“. nygroove.nyc. The New York Groove. Retrieved 6 April 2026.