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Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)

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The grounds are approximately 78 acres, and are divided into hundreds of plots, or gates, by landsmanshaften, synagogues, or families.

Notable burials

  • Herman M. Albert (1901–1947), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman
  • Birdie Amsterdam (1901–1996), lawyer, judge, and New York State Supreme Court justice
  • William Cohen (? –1916), U.S. Army sergeant killed by troops of Pancho Villa on U.S. soil in the Glenn Springs raid
  • Bernard Drachman (1861–1945), rabbi
  • Morris Michael Edelstein (1888–1941), US Congressman
  • Isidore Einstein (1880–1938), federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition
  • Berta Gersten (1894–1972), actress
  • Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012), composer and conductor
  • Abraham Harawitz (1879–1935), lawyer, New York State Assemblyman, Municipal Court Justice
  • Lorenz Hart (1895–1943), lyricist
  • Naftali Herz Imber (1856–1909), poet, lyricist, and composer of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem. Disinterred and reburied in Israel in 1953.
  • Mathilde Krim (1926–2018), medical researcher
  • Irving L. Levey (1898–1970), New York State Supreme Court justice
  • Edna Luby (1884–1928), actress and comedian
  • Theresa Moers (1893–1924), killed by the boxer Kid McCoy
  • Herman Weiss (about 1869–1934), New York assemblyman
  • Nathanael West (1903–1940), author and screenwriter
  • Eva Zeisel (1906–2011), industrial designer

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