Moldavia, with its shtetlach deserted and hundreds of synagogues long closed or destroyed, can be considered a remarkable museum to eastern European Judaism. First, in Bukovina, several splendid eighteenth and late nineteenth-century synagogues can still be found in towns such as , , , and . Further southward in , a rare wooden synagogue dates back to the sixteenth century. In Bacău, ...
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Moldavia
Founded in 1329 by Bodgan I, the principality of Moldavia pitted all those who coveted it against one another -Turks, Austrians, Poles, Cossacks and Russians – for over five centuries. Deprived of its northern section, Bukovina, annexed by the Hapsburgs in 1775, and Bessarabia, its eastern province later yielded to Russia, Moldavia gained them back when greater Romania was formed after ...
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