Cemetery mount Carmel is located in Queens, in the so-called "cemetery belt" surrounding the block of Glendale. Adopted in 1847 in new York, the act On state rural cemeteries" were enjoined not to establish new burial sites in Manhattan and recommended to do it in Brooklyn and Queens. So Glendale was almost surrounded by cemeteries – there are now twenty-nine.

Mount Carmel, founded in 1906, was named in honor of mount Carmel – Holy places in Israel and became one of the most important Jewish cemeteries in America. It consists of two parts, old and new, lying between the Jackie Robinson Parkway and Cooper Avenue. Here on the forty acres is more than eighty-five thousand graves, in which are buried many famous figures of American history.

For wrought iron fence and brick pillars at the entrance – perfect lawns, flowers, shrubs and trees leaning over the well-kept monuments. The old cemetery is the so-called Street of honor is a Pantheon of artists and politicians, who came to the U.S. from Eastern Europe at the turn of XIX-XX centuries. Here are buried dozens of Union leaders and writers, former voices of the Jewish proletariat. Among them is the founder of the Jewish daily Newspapers in Yiddish "Forverts" Abraham Kahan, writer and anarchist Saul Yanovsky, poet and editor Maurice vincheuski, politician Meyer London (the first socialist elected to the U.S. Congress).

On mount Carmel also buried theatrical actors Sarah and Jacob the Adlers, actor George Tobias, famous humorist, "king of zing" Henny Engman, lawyer and feminist Bella Abtsug (the first Jewish woman elected to the U.S. Congress).

The most famous grave in this cemetery looks decent: black monument, closely surrounded by other graves. Beneath it lies a world-famous writer Sholem Aleichem, one of the founders of Yiddish literature. His novels, plays, stories, with simplicity and humor, telling about the lives of ordinary Jews, readers adored. Many called him the Jewish mark TWAIN, and when mark TWAIN heard that, we asked: "Please tell him that I am the American Sholem Aleichem".

Sholem Aleichem was so famous that his death in 1916 caused an explosion of grief in new York, where he moved at the end of life. Hundreds of thousands of Jews took to the streets to accompany horse hearse moving from Harlem to Queens, and people on the streets and in the Windows were openly crying, saying goodbye to the beloved writer. Actually Aleichem wanted to be buried in Kiev (he was born in Pereyaslav, near Kiev), but this desire was not fulfilled, and to bow to his ashes people come here, to the black monument in the cemetery of mount Carmel.