At the initiative of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, another roundtable discussion was held on topics affecting the Jewish community. This time, the topics were the Torah, the people of Israel, and the land of Israel. As a new addition, we also discussed the 1939 British White Paper, details...
Thanks to Mr. Knol, I got my hands on a copy of "The History of the Jewish Community in Nyárádszereda" (see photos). Only a few dozen copies were published in Hungarian, but it is available in Hebrew in Israel.
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Photographs and texts of gravestones from two more cemeteries (Csíkszereda and Homoródalmás) have been added to our website, in the column details...
A music-loving audience gathered at the Vártemlom for an unusual concert. The band "Muzsikás" performed Jewish folk music spanning centuries before a large audience. You can read about the band on page 5 of the "Népújság" newspaper dated 04.11.2025.
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A new recollection is being added to our database. This time, it is the letter of Dr. Lázár Schwarz, a lawyer, one of the few Jews exempted from deportation, who communicated the list of deportees, which was later included by Yitzhak details...
On this day, the Jewish community in Târgu Mureș (as the other communities) commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in Romania.
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Additional names, the names of the forced laborers of Company 110/6 I have been added to the "Labor Service" column.
details...G'MAR HATIMA TOVA !
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At the following address, you will find another short memoir, this time from Grün F., a Jewish resident of Marosvásárhely/Tîrgu Mureș, about the situation here between the two world wars from a Jewish perspective. A glimpse details...
An excerpt from a diary (unfortunately only 3 pages) has been uploaded at the following link
A little girl from Marosvásárhely, Zsuzsa (Berner Vera Zsuzsa, IV. pupil) wrote 3 pages between March 28 and April 5,
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The minutes of Barisszia Hakatan have been uploaded to our website.
Accessibility: in the Community Life/Protcols column, click on the search engine and enter: Barisszia Hakatan.
I wish you happy browsing,
D.Gy
In 2024, at the invitation of the organizers of the “Forgatag” event in Târgu Mureș, we held for the first time the event titled “Jewish-Armenian Gastronomic and Cultural Fusion,” the first of its kind in the cultural life of the city. Why with the Armenians? Because details...
Finally, it exists and we are using it! What? The audio guide, available in four languages (Hungarian, Romanian, Hebrew, English). Using the numbers, you can walk around the museum (the longer version) or just listen to some of the exhibits. Engineer and university professor László Lefkovits details...
The synagogue has reopened its doors, this time for a jazz concert. Three young men (Ștefan Ormenișan, Iszlai Tamás, Alex. Cioată), who make up the MINDTHEGAP TRIO, held a special acoustic evening filled with light shows in the synagogue, which was packed (mainly with young people).
D.G.
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It was an extraordinary Saturday prayer, because from the weekly section "Pinchász" "Röhrig Géza, actor, writer, and poet laureate of the Kossuth Prize (his latest book – "semmike-dalok," Jelenkor Publishing House, 2025 was presented in Târgu details...
Just like last year, this year too, on the initiative of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, a roundtable discussion was held in Târgu Mureș (as well as in other communities across the country) as part of the "KESHET = RAINBOW" initiative, we held a roundtable discussion details...
Over the past two millennia, many traditions have developed around Lag BaOmer (in English: the thirty-third day of the Omer), but one thing is certain: the 33rd day of the Omer count, which lasts from Passover to Shavuot, is a day of multiple celebrations.
In ancient Israel, the barley
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This year our Jewish museum joined the national "Night of Museums" event. Without comment, the more than 1000 visitors is a telling number !
D.Gy.
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May 16, 2025
As every year in the month of May, we commemorate our family members who perished in the Holocaust. We lit candles and read the names of the parents and relatives of those still alive. But this year, there was more, as we moved from the synagogue to the former Jewish Cultural Centre
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Archiving
We have completed the cataloging and digitization of the communitie`s archives. It was about six months of work, thanks to the Mr. Attlia Gidó, a respected historian from Cluj-Napoca, researcher at the Romanian National Institute for the Study of National Minorities in
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Passover 5785
The "Festival of Passing Over" (Hag HaPesach) takes place this year between April 12–20. The holiday commemorates how Jewish slaves were spared from the final biblical plague—the death of the firstborn—by marking their homes with lamb's blood, causing
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Purim 5785
A relatively small but enthusiastic group of community members celebrated this year's Festival of Lots, the Purim holiday. The organizers, László Dub (community president) and Judith Heimann, did everything to ensure we could celebrate a different kind of Purim again. details...
We celebrated the oldest member of our congregation, Aunt Judith Kesztenbaum, on her 100th birthday in a pleasant, warm, and cheerful atmosphere, with her son András and his wife also present from Israel. Aunt Judith was greeted by László Dub, the president of our congregation, details...
We were deeply saddened to learn of the sudden death of Oszkár Rubin, a fundamental member of our community. He was an extraordinary, true HUMAN BEING!!!!
His funeral will be held on February 20, 2025.
May he rest in peace
The attached photograph was taken on January 27, 2024.
D.Gy
details...This year, on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a group from our community combined the commemoration with a film screening. In the film "Ambassador of Remembrance" (directed by Magdalena Zelasko), Stanislaw Zalewski, a member of a Polish resistance details...
ANNOUNCEMENT
To the esteemed members or sympathizers of the Jewish Community of Târgu Mureș who have relocated from Mureș and Harghita counties,
As most of you know, one of the main concerns of the Jewish Community of Târgu Mureș (CE TgM) is the restoration of the Great
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On the evening of November 6, 2024, Mr. Silviu Vexler, the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, was the guest of the Jewish Community in Târgu Mureș. The discussions focused on the upcoming parliamentary elections, the situation of communities across the country, and details...
At the initiative of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, a roundtable discussion on traditional Jewish texts took place in Târgu Mureș (as well as in other communities across the country) as part of the "KESHET = RAINBOW" event, because "as a people, we express our details...
The Tiberius Quartet held an extraordinary concert in the synagogue in memory of Péter Kozma, a cellist who passed away at a young age. The music was a true attunement to the approaching Yom Kippur. I should note: the concert ended before the start of the holiday!
To all website readers:
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