Maramureș (Hungarian: Máramaros), the mountain region on both banks of the Tisza in today’s northern Romania and western Ukraine, was one of the densest centres of Hasidism in Europe. In the towns and villages along the Tisza, Iza and Vișeu valleys, Jews worked in the forests, the sawmills and trade, and in places made up a third of the population or more. The rebbes of Kosov, and after them those of Vizhnitz, regarded the whole county as their domain, while from 1858 Sighet was the seat of the Teitelbaum dynasty — the Yetev Lev, the Kedushat Yom Tov and their sons. Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, later the Satmar Rebbe, came from this family. In 1940 the region was annexed by Hungary, and in the spring of 1944, within a few weeks, its Jews were concentrated in ghettos in Sighet, Vișeu de Sus, Dragomirești and Baia Mare and sent to Auschwitz. What remains today: the Vizhnitz synagogue and the Elie Wiesel House in Sighet, cemeteries in the towns and villages, and the working synagogue of Baia Mare.
A two- or three-day route from Baia Mare to Sighet and on to Dragomirești, Borșa and Vișeu de Sus: synagogues, cemeteries, distances, what to arrange in advance and what we could not verify.
Ieud in Maramureș had a small community with a Mishnah society, a beit midrash and rabbis who wrote books. In April 1944…
Dragomirești in Maramureș had a Hasidic community and the Daat Torah yeshiva. In April 1944 a ghetto for the Jews of the…
A two- or three-day route from Baia Mare to Sighet and on to Dragomirești, Borșa and Vișeu de Sus: synagogues, cemeteries, distances,…
Elie Wiesel’s childhood home, from which he and his family were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944, is now a memorial and…
Baia Mare (Nagybánya) opened to Jews only in 1848. The story of its Orthodox community, the 1885 synagogue on Strada Someșului, the…
From the 1940 Vienna Award and the 1941 deportation of “alien” Jews to Kamenets-Podolsk, through the ghettos of Sighet, Vișeu de Sus…
From ten families in 1746 to 10,000 Jews in 1941: the rabbis, the Teitelbaum and Vizhnitz courts, the ghetto and the deportation…
The Vizhnitz Hasidic synagogue on Strada Basarabiei, built in 1902, is the only one of Sighet’s historic synagogues still standing. Its story,…
Thousands of gravestones from the late 18th century, the ohel of the Yetev Lev, the Kedushat Yom Tov and the Atzei Chaim,…
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From the Federation’s cemetery list (2007). Arrange visits in advance with the community, which holds the keys.
Map of Jewish cemeteries in RomaniaTimes are calculated for Sighetu Marmației.
Astronomical calculation for the town-centre coordinates, sea-level horizon, Romanian time: dawn 16.1°, tallit & tefillin 11.5°, nightfall 7.083°, candle lighting 18 minutes before sunset, Shabbat ends 8.5°. For orientation only; consult a rabbi on questions of halacha.
According to the chains’ own websites. Branch addresses and hours are in each chain’s store locator.
Hundreds of products from Romanian supermarkets with a recognised hechsher. In the catalogue you can filter by the chain you shop at.
Open the kosher catalogueGeneral guidance for travellers. For any kashrut question, consult a rabbi.
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