Carei, Romania

Memorial book
For the Jews of Carei and its Surroundings
(Carei, Romania)

47°41' / 22°28'

Translation of
Sefer zikhron l'yhudiy karey (nag' karoy)

Editor: by Israel Weiser

Published in Jerusalem, 2018

Acknowledgments

This is a translation of: Sefer zikhron l'yhudiy karey (nag' karoy)
(Memorial book for the Jews of Carei and its surroundings),
Editor: Israel Weiser, Published: Jerusalem, 2018 (H, Hu 375 pages)

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Translated by Jerrold Landau

In their Memory	7
Thoughts Before Passover 5708 [1948]	10
Words from the Editors	12
Introduction - ELŐSZÓ	17
Chapter 1: Carei, the city and its history	19
Chapter 2: History of the Jews of Carei	25
1. History of the Jews of Carei from the beginning of their settlement in the city until the end of the 18^th century	25
2. History of the Jews of Carei from the beginning of the 19^th century until they received emancipation in the year 1867	35
3. History of the Jews of Carei from the time they received emancipation until the end of the First World War (1876-1918)	42
Chapter 3: Religious life, Rabbis of the communities, and Yeshiva studies	60
Chapter 4: Education in the Jewish Schools	76
Chapter 5: History of the Jews of Carei between the two world wars under Romanian rule (1919-1940)	81
Chapter 6: The return of Hungarian rule	126
1. In the shadow of the laws regarding Jews	126
2. The state of moving gallows – Service in the labor brigades (Munkaszolgálat)	134
3. The Yellow Hangman	150
4. Ghettoization of the Jews of North Transylvania and deportation to the camps	154
Chapter 7: History of the Jews of Carei, returning home	173
Conclusion	179
Rosh Hashanah 5709 [1948]	182
Tables of Testimony – Names of those from Carei and the area who perished in the Holocaust	184
List of those who perished in Nagykaroly (Carei)	209

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