Cemetery Data
This webpage contains links to Philadelphia area Jewish cemeteries websites, burial information for several cemeteries, and Landmanshaftn Cemetery data collected by funeral director Goldsteins’ Rosenberg’s Raphael-Sacks.
JGASGP has officially adopted Har Jehuda Cemetery.
We have a group of 29 volunteers working to digitize the burial records. The records will be part of JewishGen.org (JOWBR) and on our webpage under cemetery data.
Our volunteers have learned to analyze section names, Landsmanshaftn, and undertakers, for example. More information of a personal nature has been listed as “More info on file” to maintain privacy. If an obituary is attached to the burial card, we have stated “Obit on file”. Some cards had interesting notations, names crossed out, and unusual unexplainable comments. We appreciate the continuous efforts of Kathy Phillips and Larry Moskowitz at Har Jehuda, for answering all our questions.
We have learned more about burials than we could have ever imagined! We know that names could be misspelled and don’t always match the headstone. We learned that not every burial had a card in the file, or a headstone, and that cremations were more common than we thought. Early burials are recorded in books found on Ancestry.com, for example, and may not have been in the card file either.
We believe in the mitzvah to never forget the name of the deceased. These records will not only record names, but aid in genealogical research. Over 26,000 burial records are included in two .pdf files available to JGASGP members – one sorted by name and one by plot #.
Thank you to our coordinators who have streamlined the process for data collection and our wonderful group of volunteers! This wouldn’t be happening without you!
OUR COORDINATORS:
- Karen Albert is responsible for sending out the assignments and coordinating a group of volunteers.
- Marilyn Golden is responsible for coordinating a group of volunteers.
- Alan Kaminsky is overseeing the data collection and is responsible for coordinating a group of volunteers.
- Helene Rosenfeldt is responsible for scanning and coordinating a group of volunteers.
OUR VOLUNTEERS:
| Albert, Jeffrey | Franklin, Alene | Silverman, Donna |
| Albert, Karen | Golden, *Marilyn | Spector, Walter |
| Avery, Elisa | Kaminsky, *Alan | Sporkin, Andi |
| Berland, Juliana | Kitchenoff, Robert | Spritz, John |
| Bonn, Chana | Pekter, Joanne | Steinberg, Lisa |
| Charlton, Cindy | Rosenberg, Murray | Taylor, Craig |
| Coren, Andy | Rosenfeldt, *Helene | Weinberger, Fran Solow |
| Csigi, Sybil | Sandoval, Lori | Weiss, Alicia |
| Dirckx, Rena | Sands, Roberta | |
| First, Al | Seeherman, Elisa |
Click here to see what the team had to work with.
We remember you. You are not forgotten.
JGASGP adopted Har Jehuda Cemetery a few years ago. A group of 29 members volunteered to digitize over 26,000 burials. Members can access the records under RESOURCES and then CEMETERY DATA on our website. We thought our task was complete until we found 3 more books on the shelf in the Har Jehuda office listing burials at Har Hasetim Cemetery. This is where our story begins. Or, should we say, continues.
The Har Hasetim Association purchased approximately 19 acres of land in Gladwyne, PA in 1893 to establish a Jewish cemetery for poor immigrants. Many couldn’t afford the ones within the city. They sold at least 13 sections to beneficial societies, who in turn sold inexpensive plots to their members. Their purpose was to ensure burial based on K’vod HaMet, Jewish ritual. No perpetual care was offered. The first burial, according to our most current research, was a stillborn female on October 22, 1893. The last was in 1945. As our research continues, we’re estimating around 3,000 burials.
READ more about Har Hasetim and the process we used to digitize these records in Chronicles Vol 43-1 Spring 2026.
Beth David Reform Congregation now owns Har Hasetim. More information is available on their website bdavid.org and at gladwynejewishcemetery.org.
More records will be added later this year, as we continue our research.
Karen, Alan, Helene, and Marilyn
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