Har Jehuda Cemetery and Mausoleum, Upper Darby, PA


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Located in:
Upper Darby, PA (Delaware Co.)

Street address:
8400 Lansdowne Ave., Upper Darby, PA 19082

GPS location:
Latitude: 39.96390
Longitude: -75.29330

Ownership
Moscowitz Family

Burial summary
Number of burials: 1200 +-
First burial: 1896
Last burial: ongoing

Contact information:
Kathy Phillips
Office Manager
8400 Lansdowne Ave.
Upper Darby, PA 19082
Phone: 610-789-2104
Email: kphillips@harjehuda.com

Web address:

Original burial records:
At the cemetery. Computerized.

Map of cemetery
A cemetery map is available here.

Other references:
This cemetery is on Findagrave.


Comments
From Findagrave: Har Jehuda (also spelled Har Yehuda), located on 27 acres, was founded by Julius Moskowitz, a Russian-Jew, who was president of the Independent Chevra Kadisha in South Philadelphia . It was the first Jewish cemetery west of Philadelphia. Moskowitz, a Russian-Jew, decided to establish in the mid-1890s a Jewish burial ground for Eastern European Jews without regard to their country of origin. It was assessible by inter-urban trolley car that connected Upper Darby and West Chester to Philadelphia. It was the first non-profit cemetery established for the concentrated population of Eastern European Jews in South Philadelphia.


Thanks to volunteer Linda Ewall-Krocker for gathering information on this cemetery



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