Mount Moriah Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey)

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]

Mount Moriah Cemetery
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

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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