Publication of Pinkas ha-Kehillot Romania, Chapter of Iasi #ukraine
Robert Sherins <rsherins@...>
Dear Genners,
The English translation of the chapter about the Jewish community (Kehillah) of Iasi, Romania, has just been published on the Jewishgen.org/Yizkor Book Translations website <http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/pinkas_romania/rom1_00141.html>. It is a very lengthy (66 pages/contained on two webpages) and scholarly document, which summarizes the history of the Kehillah of Iasi since the 16th century. The details of the history contained in this article encompass the most important facts that are relevant to the history of the other Jewish communities located elsewhere in Moldavia. Most importantly, there was a vital trading relationship between Brody, Galicia, and Iasi, Moldavia, since the 1500s, when the exports >from Brody and other Eastern European states required the transport of goods for shipment to the Moldavian port of Galati, which was located in the delta leading to the Black Sea. Many Polish and Russian Jews immigrated to Moldavia during the18-19th centuries, when the Romanian government offered tax free privileges (they were known as sudits) to merchants, businessmen, and skilled craftsmen, to encourage the development of Moldavia. The extensive pre-existing trading relationships between Iasi and Brody, Galicia, was another reason why Jewish merchants immigrated to Iasi and other towns in Moldavia. We have published the English translations of the history of the Kehillah >from the Pinkas ha-Kehillot, Romania, of eleven towns in Moldavia, which include: Botosani, Frumusica, Galati, Hirlau, Husi, Iasi, Negresti, Podul Iloaiei, Pungesti, Roman, and Vaslui. To access the translations, search the following url link <http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html>. These translations >from the Pinkas ha-Kehillot Romania were made by the donations of Robert S. Sherins, M.D., Richard J. Sherins, M.D., and Beryle Solomon Buchman, and the English translations of Ziva Yavin, Ph.D., and Rabbi Jack H Bloom, Ph.D. We encourage other "Genners" to contribute to the Jewishgen.org/Yizkor Book Project and translate the remaining chapters. Robert S. Sherins, M.D. Pacific Palisades, California
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