Tour of Jewish Romania
Hosted By: My Jewish Learning, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
Romania was the Paris of the east, a center for fashion, music, architecture and more. The city of Sighet was the center of eastern European Chassidut since the 18th century, visited by the Baal Shem Tov, as well as Elie Wiesel. Before 1939, there were almost 1 million Romanian Jews. The present-day community numbers around 5,000. Half a million Romanian Jews were murdered in Auschwitz and Transnistria camps, in what is present-day Ukraine.
