Comments on: Rabbi Eliezer Lesser

By: Ben Bee Zee

Ben Bee Zee — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:31:38 +0000

(you are right my records contained burials of all 3 cemeteries) Makom Shalom was a free burial cemetery where most of it are Galicians. they only have about 11,500 places.

By: Asher

Asher — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:24:41 +0000

Ben Bee Zee, He his buried in Bayside gate 13 (i took the picture above). Samuel lot where his wife is buried is also in Bayside (off the middle path)

There are 3 cemeteries adjacent to each other.
Mokom Shalom (left) Bayside (center) Acacia (right)

Mokom Shalom is always locked, i never had a chance to crawl in, it seems to be the smallest of all 3.

By: Ben Bee Zee

Ben Bee Zee — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:11:19 +0000

Is he buried in Bayside or in Makom Shalom. I found his and his wife’s info in the records of Makom Shalom

Rose N. Lesser
death cert #33302 New York, N.Y., died 11/12/1908, born 10/1860 Russia, U. S. 1862, New York 1888, father Jacob Rosenzweich, mother Lenore Gefulhause, lived 31 W. 124th St., New York, N.Y., undertaker Sam Rothschild, 54 E. 116th St., New York, N.Y., Samuel Lot

Lazerus Lesser
death cert #20775 New York, died 7/7/09, father Louis Lesser, mother
Rachel Levinson, widower, born 1851 Russia, undertaker S. Rothschild,
54 E. 116th St., New York, N.Y.

By: Asher

Asher — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:52:30 +0000

I have to double check, i don’t believe she is buried in the same section where he is buried (Gate 13, same section of Harav Vidrevitz Z”l). Secondly, it doesn’t indicate that he himself was a Rabbi other that his father was a very famous Rov.

By: Rabbi G.

Rabbi G. — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:34:51 +0000

It would appear that they are husband and wife because the NYT in her obit lists the Rav by name, Rabbi Lazarus Lesser in addition to the fact that the burial will taker place at Bayside. The Rebbetzin, according to the NYT was involved with many charities serving the poor and indigent.

By: YD Miller

YD Miller — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:16:13 +0000

find a Rose N. Lesser being listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as a popular Jewish figure, here first husband was I. G. Samuels and the second husband was Lazarus Lesser who might be this rabbi, see link

http://books.google.com/books?id=pMA8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA78&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U09D60uMOUEq7xDZO1Ulc7HUXt_fg&ci=139%2C972%2C788%2C201&edge=0