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FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE JEWISH CULTURE AND TRADITIONS OF MOINESTI |  [JUD. BACAU] ROMANIA

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 In this page, with the time, we will add resources and address issues in reference to the Jewish Life in MOINESTI, Bacau Department, Moldavia Province, Romania and Europe in general.

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  > Recommendation for an Immigrant to Rosh Pina - Moineşti (Romania), 1882

Eretz Israel, Settlements | Certificate from Gedalia and Chaim from the city of Moineşti (Romania). Addressed to the rabbis of Constantinople, as recommendation for financial support for R' Chaim son of R' Yosef Zvi, on his way to settle in Eretz Israel. Moineşti, Tamuz 1882.
"To the Rav Hagaon Crown of Israel and its Glory. in the city of Constantinople."; "Since all beginnings are difficult and how much more so such an undertaking where the traveling expenses are so great, and the great cost of moving to settle in the land whose people and their customs and all their dealings are all strange to him, and he is forced to take assistance from people who will support him with money and counsel, therefore I have given him this document to approach Your Glorious Honor.". Rich flowery language, fancy scribal writing.

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  > 1928 Cadastral map of the City of Moinesti, with the name of the Jewish Families populating the town, at that time.|The map is courtesy of Mr. Viorel Florin Costea, Senior Assistant to the Mayor of MOINESTI.

  > Document with Jewish people living in MOINESTI, at the appreciative time of the forced evacuation to the Bacau Ghetto, by the Romanian military authorities. | Rosh Pina city archives.

  > Extrant from Solomon Sapira: O living legend - Moinesti | From the Rosh-Pina City [Israel] Archives, by Josephine KOHLENBERG

 > Fundaţia LEOLAM (ETERNITATE) şi un simbol al veşniciei: Cimitirul Evreiesc din Moineşti, Bacău | Autor: Beatrice Kohlenberg, Toronto

HISTORIC OLD PICTURES OF MOINESTI, SINCE  1897 UNTIL 1913.

 THE JEWISH INVESTMENT WAS PRESENT AT EVERY STEP AND AT EVERY MOMENT, FROM 1800'S UNTIL 1940'S. THESE MAJOR INVESTMENTS BROUGHT TECHNOLOGY, COMMERCE,  MANY WORK PLACES AND PROSPERITY TO THE TOWN.