United Jewish Cemetery
United Jewish Cemetery[Cincinnati, Ohio. The cemetery was opened by members of Bene Israel and B'nai Jeshurum congregations in 1862. The first burial was Issac Fredrick on February 18, 1850, when ground was first consecrated.
Over the years, as the two congregations opened or acquired (through merger) other cemeteries, UJC grew to six graveyards. In 2008, UJC became a part of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, Inc. (www.jcemcin.org), which merged almost all of the area's 26 Jewish cemeteries into a single organization.
Jewish Civil War Memorial
The Jewish Civil War Memorial is an
Veterans lie near. The memorial now includes the names of local Jewish soldiers from World War I and World War II
.
The United Jewish Cemetery rededicated its Veterans Memorial on
21 gun salute. The names of the fallen heroes were read aloud.[citation needed
]
- Civil War: Marx Esslinger, Joseph Ettlinger (Pvt. 5th Ohio),[1]Jonas Goldsmith, Sam Keisser, Adolph Mangold and Louis Reitler.
- World War I: Robert Livingston, James Rind and R. Robert Shroder.
- World War II: John E. Davis; Robert F. Goldenberg; Richard J. Herman; James Herzberg; Stuart Allan Kaplan; Samuel L. Kessler; Tedd R. Levy; Leon Meyer Mack; James M. Pollock; Nathaniel Rosenthal; George E. Rosing; Dr. Howard M. Schriver; Harold Silverman; Bernard Harry Simpson; Richard J. Sloane; Milford Wirt Solomon; Robert Sanford Waldman; Ferdinand L. Weston and Jesse Myron Wolf.
Notable burials
- Alfred M. Cohen (1859–1949), lawyer and politician
- Louis Grossmann (1863–1926), rabbi
- Moritz Loth (1832–1913), businessman
- Robert Middleton (1911–1977), Actor
- Julian Morgenstern (1881–1976), Rabbi
- Theodore Albert Peyser(1873–1937), US Congressman
- Isaac Mayer Wise (1819–1900), Rabbi
- Leo Wise (1849–1933), newspaper editor and publisher
- David Urbansky (1843–1897), Civil War hero who was the first Jew to be awarded a Medal of Honor.
- George Zepin (1878–1963), rabbi
See also
- Mayfield Cemetery – a United Jewish Cemeteries facility located on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights.
References
- ^ "Officers of the 5th Ohio". Archived from the original on 2006-06-16. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
- Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors, American Guide Series, The Weisen-Hart Press, May 1943, p. 317 OCLC 28402639
Further reading
- Grace, Kevin; White, Tom (2004). Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Press (Images of America). OCLC 57556983.
- Krejci, William G. (2015). Buried Beneath Cleveland: Lost Cemeteries of Cuyahoga County. Charleston, SC: The History Press. OCLC 916736613.
External links
- Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati
- United Jewish Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Jewish Cemetery Rededicates Veterans Memorial[permanent dead link]
- Indian Hill vet leads effort to rededicate monument
- Jewish and Veterans Cemeteries in Great Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jewish Cemetery – Walnut Hills
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