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Alternate names: Zsámbék [Hun], Schambeck [Ger]. 47°33' N, 18°43' E, 17 miles WNW of Budapest. Jewish population: 425 (in 1880), 222 (in 1910). Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 1519: "Zsambek".

Old Cemetery: Weed filled and neglected, the first Zsámbék Jewish cemetery has traces of the former stone-fence. Three gravestones still stand, one from 1844. [March 2009]