Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

Memorial pebbles, messages and prayers by the grave of Rabbi Oppenheimer

an Bernét Munkácsi can be seen in the last row but one in Section 1/b. The graves of Dezső Szomory, writer, Mátyás Feld, theatre manager, Béla Salamon, actor, Dániel Jób, managing director and stage manager of Vígszínház, and his wife, Böske Simon, actress who became Miss Europe can all be found here.

Among the dead buried in the group of sections numbered 2, there are the linguist-orientalist Ignác Goldziher and his mathematician son Károly, with opera singer Dávid Ney lying next to them. Béla Lajta’s earliest works are in the back row of the section: a funerary stele he made for his parents (Mr and Mrs Dávid Leitersdorfer, 1902), his uncle Sándor Epsteins tombstone, also of unusual shape (1903), and another monument placed over his brother Henrik Lajta's grave in 1921, which is a replica of a monument made earlier by the architect, who was already dead at that time.

In the first row of Section 3/b, you can see traditional graves of rabbis from the last century with large heaps of pebbles placed here as tokens of commemoration and respect; on the weather-beaten slips of paper among these pebbles are prayers, wishes and messages. The highest of these heaps can be found on the grave of Simon ben Dávid Oppenheimer, who died at the age of 100 and worked as the head of the council of rabbis for 50 years at the beginning of the last century. In Section 3/c lies Béla Kom- jádi, the sportsman who fought a relentless fight for Hungarian water polo. In the first row of Section 3/d two artistic monuments are worthy of special attention: one is that

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