The Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries are a group of 42http://www.histopolis.com/Place/US/MA/Suffolk_County/Baker_Street_Jewish_Cemeteries Jewish cemeteries in use since the 1920s on Baker Street in the West Roxbury

West Roxbury, Massachusetts

West Roxbury is a neighborhood in Boston bordered by Roslindale to the north, the Town of Dedham to the east and south, the Town of Brookline and the City of Newton to the west. Many people mistakenly confuse West Roxbury with Roxbury, but the two are not connected. West Roxbury is separated from...

 section of Boston. The cemeteries are located on land that once formed part of Brook Farm

Brook Farm

Brook Farm, also called the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education or the Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education, was a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s...

, a 19th-century communal-living experiment.

The series of small cemeteries are strung along both sides of a narrow access road at 776 Baker Streethttp://www.histopolis.com/Place/US/MA/Suffolk_County/Baker_Street_Jewish_Cemeteries that leads only to the last of the small cemeteries. Each was owned and managed by an individual Boston-area congregation or Jewish organization.

According to The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

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, “the Baker Street cemeteries are home to some of the city's most striking, albeit endangered, examples of historic religious architecture. Dotting the road are 10 chapel buildings about the size of one-room schoolhouses, perfectly rendered synagogues in miniature, with glorious stained glass, vaulted ceilings, ornate chandeliers, oak pulpits, and other vestiges of the final destination for members of a once-thriving immigrant community.”

Notable burials

• Johnny Most
  Johnny Most
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• Nahum M. Sarna
  Nahum M. Sarna
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• Joseph B. Soloveitchik
• Michael Hammer
  Michael Hammer
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• Rabbi Richard J. Israel

Ernest Rabinowicz http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/obit-rabinowicz.html

Cemeteries of Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries

42 Cemeteries:

Abramson
Agudath Israel
American Friendship
Anshe Sfard
Atereth Israel
Beth El
Boylston Lodge
Butrimantzy
Chevra Shaas
Crawford Street Memorial Park
Custom Tailors
David Vicur Cholim
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
Hebrew Volin
Imas-Roxbury Lodge
Independent Pride of Boston
Independent Workmen's Circle
Kaminker
Kehillath Jacob
Kopaigorod
Koretzer
Kovner
Lawrence Avenue
Lord Rothschild
Mohliver
New Palestine
Olita
Ostro Marshoe
Polonnoe
Pulpit Rock
Pultusker
Puritan
Quincy Hebrew
Shara Tfilo
Shepetovka
Sons of Abraham
Staro Konstatinov
Stepiner
Temple Emeth (two separated parcels)
Vilno
Zviller