Jewish Cemetery Directory
Historic Jewish Cemetery
Directory Of Cleveland
In January of 1865, James and Fannie Horwitz lost their 2-year-old son. Aaron Horwitz was buried in the new portion of Fir Street Cemetery, located west of the Cuyahoga River in Brooklyn Township. The Jewish cemetery had opened that year to provide for interment of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. Aaron was the first burial representing that group in Cleveland.
Approximately 70,000 Jewish grave sites reside throughout Greater Cleveland within some 20 cemeteries (both Jewish and public cemeteries which maintain specific Jewish sections).
The memorial specialists at A Friedman And Sons have a long history in the city. Their work within the Jewish faith community is represented throughout Cleveland’s Jewish cemeteries.
The Cleveland Jewish Cemetery directory below is provided as an informational resource to our readers. For specific memorial or monument questions including memorial pricing, please contact the team at A Friedman And Sons.
Cleveland Jewish Cemeteries
Cemetery
Directory
Baxter Cemetery
Berger Cemetery
Bet Olam Cemetery
Chesed Shel Emeth
– Formally Ridge Road 1
Chesterland Memorial
Fir Street Cemetery
Glenville Cemetery
Of Greater
Cleveland
Harvard Cemetery
Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery*
Lakeview Cemetery *
Lansing Cemetery
Lincoln
– Sections include Warrensville, Workmen’s Circle
& Independent Mizreich
Mt. Sinai Cemetery
Western Reserve Memorial Gardens *
Willet Cemetery
* Denotes general community cemetery with Jewish sections.
Headstone Unveiling - Honoring
A Respectful Jewish Tradition
A Friedman And Sons Coordinates This Process With Each Jewish Cemetery
Time Frame: Within or around the one-year anniversary of death.
Ceremony: Arranged by the synagogue, rabbi, and family members.
The team at A Friedman And Sons works with cemetery staff to place the headstone covered or wrapped in a sheet or cloth.
The stone is then respectfully positioned and placed at the grave site in preparation for the unveiling ceremony.
For additional questions, contact the staff at A Friedman And Sons or your local synagogue.
Cleveland's earliest
Jewish communities
built synagogues
dating back to 1840.
The foundation of the city’s faith community is reflected in some of the early-established synagogues. Some of those first congregations included:
1894 – Willson Avenue Temple – East 55th and Central Avenue
1905 – Oheb Zedek Congregation – East 38th and Scovill Avenue
1906 – B’nai Jeshurun – East 55th and Scovill Avenue
1912 – Euclid Avenue Temple – Euclid Avenue and East 82nd Street
1921 – Oheb Zedek Congregation – Morison Avenue and Parkwood Drive
1921 – Cleveland Jewish Center – East 105th Street
1922 – N’Vai Zedek Congregation – East 119th Street and Union Avenue
1924 – The Temple – East 107th Street and Ansel Road