Jewish Heritage in Romania
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Overview
Highlights
- Visit of the Choral Temple in Bucharest
- Yeshua Tova Synagogue
- Bucharest Jewish Quarter & Cemetery
- Visit the only wooden half underground synagogue of the country where Baal Shem Tov served for years
- The Old Jewish Cemetery in Suceava
- Elie Wiesel Memorial House
- Sighetu Marmatiei Synagogue
- Cluj Napoca's New Synagogue
- The Great Synagogue from Sibiu
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- All entrance fees, Private Guide, Private Vehicle, Free Wi-fi, Complimentary Bottled Water, All taxes, 7 Breakfasts, 1 Lunch, 2 Dinners
Itinerary
Our guide will be waiting for you in the morning ready to take you for a panoramic city tour. The city is rich in Jewish art and literature, art and music and everything you can think about. Make a stop at the Athenaeum, Revolution Square, Opera House and Triumphal Arch.
Drop off to your hotel and evening at leisure.
After the breakfast, take a visit to the Choral Temple and afterwards visit the Jewish Museum which gives broad coverage of the history of the Jews in Romania. The display includes an enormous collection of books written, published, illustrated, or translated by Roman...
A morning visit to the only Wooden half underground synagogue of the country where Baal Shem Tov served for years. Thousands of Jews settled here in the 17th century, fleeting Poland following the Chmielnicki Uprising in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Several tom...
After breakfast, depart towards Suceava. One of the earliest sites of Jewish settlement in the region, Suceava was already home to an established community at the beginning of the 16th century. Some 18 synagogues and small Hasidic prayer rooms were in use before World...
Today will be a busy day. Get ready to discover the Voronet and Humor Monasteries, where you will be charmed by the quality of the paintings. Both monasteries are Unesco Heritage treasures. Departure towards Maramures, a rich place in Jewish Culture. On your way to Va...
Today you will visit the Synagogue from Sighet and the Elie Wiesel Memorial House. The house where 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel was born is now a museum dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust and the Jewish way of life in Sighet before World War II. Bo...
Depart early morning from Maramures. Arrival in Cluj Napoca, where you get to visit The New Synagogue. The original grand Moorish-style synagogue, better known today as the Memorial Temple of the Deportees (in memory of those who died in World War II), was designed by...
Take a tour in Sibiu and visit the Great Synagogue. Although documents attest the existence of Jews in Sibiu since the 12th century, the Jewish community of Sibiu was never among the largest in Romania. In 1940, the town had some 1,300 Jews, three synagogues, three ra...
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