Union Field Cemetery
Union Field Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Ridgewood, Queens, New York City. Located in the Cemetery Belt, it was chartered in 1846 and dedicated in 1878 and serves the Congregation [Rodeph Sholom (Manhattan)|Congregation Rodeph Sholom] who purchased the plot of land.
Notable burials
- Roy Cohn, lawyer and prosecutor who handled the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor; manufacturer of model railways
- Samuel Dickstein, politician and judge; United States representative from New York from 1923 to 1945, New York State [Supreme Court] Justice, and a Soviet spy
- Charles Frohman, theatre manager and producer; died in the sinking of the Lusitania during WWI
- Michael Furst, lawyer
- Henry M. Goldfogle, politician; United States representative from New York from 1901 to 1915
- Alan Hewitt, actor
- Samuel H. Hofstadter, lawyer and politician
- Jacob Joseph, Chief Rabbi of New York City
- Bert Lahr, actor and comedian
- Robert Lansing, actor
- Fredericka Mandelbaum, female crime boss in the mid to late 19th-century
- Israel Miller, founder of I. Miller & Co.
- Arnold Rothstein, crime boss in the early 20th-century
- Nahum Meir Schaikewitz, Yiddish and Hebrew novelist and playwright.
- Ludwig Teller, politician; United States representative from New York 1957 to 1961
- Susan Brandeis Gilbert, attorney and daughter of Louis Brandeis