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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 in Springfield Gardens,
Queens, NY and one in Beth Moses Cemetery
in Pinelawn, NY. Gates of all three plots
are shown, below. To see names of those
interred in all three plots click the link
"names," below the gate photographs.
In
September 2008, gravestones in the plots
at Montefiore Cemetery were first
recorded with a digital camera. We
revisited the plots in 2012, recording
previously missed and newly installed
stones. In addition, we visited and
recorded the Beth Moses plot in 2012.
Hebrew names and dates have been
translated and added to the Jewishgen
Online Worldwide Burial Registry.
There are 283 burials recorded, in all.
You may search the full FLPBA database
(with headstone photographs and Hebrew
name transcriptions) on the Jewishgen
Online Worldwide Burial Registry.
Enter a town search (is exactly) for Yurovshchina and
Geographical Area USA, New York to see all
the burials. Or, search
for individuals by entering their names.
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| FLPBA Gates at Montefiore Cemetery |
| Block 89, Gate 156W |
Block 5, Gate 567W |
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FLPBA Gate at Beth Moses
Cemetery
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Block
24, Maccabee Road
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| List of names
included in the three burial plots in New
York. |
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