Fir Street Cemetery
Stuart Deicher
Executive Director, Park Synagogue
216.371.2244
Information
Organization Information
The Liberty Aid and Hungarian Aid societies founded Fir Street Cemetery, the second-oldest Jewish cemetery in Cleveland and has three sections:
- East (near West 58th) Heights Jewish Center
- Center Hungarian Aid Society
- West (near West 61st) Anshe Emeth - Park Synagogue
Burials no longer take place at Fir Street Cemetery. The deceased include Polish immigrant Harry "Czar" Bernstein, an East side political boss who owned saloons and theaters; Russian immigrant Rabbi Gershon Ravinson of E. 4oth Street who was of the 10th generation of rabbis in his family, as well as R.H. Myers.
In 2007, Judge Ray Pianka, Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge who lives in the neighborhood, led a neighborhood block club to renovate the cemetery that was completed in 2009.
Donors for the project included the Cleveland Foundation and Beachwood resident Robert Klein, owner of Safeguard Properties. "This project honored the memories of the people buried in the cemetery, said Klein". "So many people of different faiths and nationalities came together to make something very special happen."
- Contact Info:
Stuart Deicher
Executive Director, Park Synagogue
216.371.2244
- Address:
- 6015 Fir Street
Cleveland, OH 44102
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- sdeicher@parksyn.org
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Location(s)
Location(s)
- Location Name:
- Fir Street Cemetery
- Address:
- 6015 Fir Street
- Cleveland
- OH
- 44102
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- Contact:
- Stuart Deicher
- Executive Director
- Phone Number
- 216.371.2244
- sdeicher@parksyn.org
