ZIP 07510
Noble Construction, a cemetery maintenance contractor, manages several smaller cemeteries in northern New Jersey including the Water Street Shul. They have a database of all burials in all of the cemeteries they manage. The phone number is 973-702-0447. Source: Monica Leonards This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [19 January 2001]
Paterson cemeteries including Mount Nebo, Cedar Lawn, Goffle Road: http://www.paterson.k12.nj.us/~history/churches/ceme.html
Ahavat Joseph Congregational Cemetery: Established in 1890 in Paterson, N.J., Ahavath Joseph merged with another congregation many years ago and relocated to another section of Paterson. The few remaining worshippers usually attend daily minyan at the Temple Emanuel. You might confer with Evan Stalbach. Martin Rittenberg collected names. Another 17 stones exist but were either illegible or written in Yiddish/Hebrew. Sources: Martin S. Rittenberg, Treasurer, Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey B'Nai Israel & Samuel and Raymond Whitzman at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , 5785 McAlear Ave., Cote St. Luc, Que, Canada H4W 2H3. He has part or most pictures.
Cedar Lawn:
Goffle Road:
Mount Nebo: 1919 Jewish population was 15,000 according to "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States", pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25, 1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; vol. 21, edited by Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee and submitted by Alan Hirschfeld.
Ind. United Jersey Verein:
McBride Silk City Ben. Assoc.:
McBride Water Street Shul:
McBride Nathan & Miriam Barnert: