Bacău

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has abstract: Town in northern Moldavia, at the confluence of the Bistrița and Siret Rivers. Oral tradition claims that the first synagogue was erected in the late fifteenth century, but the oldest documentary reference to the existence of a Jewish community is a tombstone from 1703. In 1742, the Moldavian prince Constantin Mavrocordat granted two Jewish merchants from Hotin (in Bessarabia) the right to settle in the town and exempted them from taxes. Prince Ioniță Sandu Sturza, who encouraged the settlement of Jewish merchants, adopted a similar policy in 1823. @en
title: Bacău
alternative label: Bacău
preferred label: Bacău
has related: Bessarabia
has related: Botoşani
has related: Bucharest
has related: Moldavia
has related: About this Article (Rabbinate)
has related: Romania
has related: Transylvania
has related: Yisra’el of Ruzhin