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| The First Lubiner
Progressive Benevolent Association |
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Many
immigrants from the
shtetls of
eastern Europe established landsmanshaft societies in their new
land. These societies not only served
the social and economic needs of their members, but also bought and
held burial plots for their members
in local cemeteries. For many years they served as the primary
tie to the old country and the principal support for making one's way
in the new. Former residents from Lubin established the
First
Lubiner Progressive Benevolent Association in New York City.
We have located the Certificate of Incorporation,
dated 29 April 1911. It cites the following objective for the
organization:
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To engender good
feelings and brotherly love among its members;
to
promote
sociability
among
its
members;
to
aid
its
members
voluntarily
in
case of need or distress;
to
voluntarily
provide
for
a
suitable
funeral and burial for its members
in case of death;
to
institute
and
maintain
a
common
meeting place where its members may
gather at certain intervals or meetings for social purposes, and
to
adopt by-laws by which said Association may be governed.
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We
know of three burial plots purchased by the FLPBA: two in
Montefiore
Cemetery (images below) in Springfield Gardens, Queens, NY and one in
Beth Moses
Cemetery in Pinelawn, NY. |
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| FLPBA Gates at
Montefiore
Cemetery |
| Block
89,
Gate
156W |
Block 5,
Gate 567W |
| In September 2008, 189
gravestones in the plots at Montefiore Cemetery were recorded with
digital camera. Hebrew names
and dates have been
translated and added to the Jewishgen Online
Worldwide Burial Registry. You may search the full FLPBA database
(with headstone
photographs) for Montefiore Cemetery on the Jewishgen Online
Worldwide Burial Registry.
Enter a town search (is exactly)
for Yurovshchina and Geographical
Area USA,
New
York. |
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| List of names included in
the two burial plots in
Montefiore Cemetery. |
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