EVREII DIN SĂPÂNŢA ÎN MEMORIA COLECTIVĂ
The Jews of Săpânţa in Collective Memory

Summary/Abstract: Transylvanian Jews were a community that, unlike the Jews of the Old Kingdom had a special regime: in 1867, when they received the right to settle down in cities, they had also the right of emancipation. The 20th century was, for the Jews, full of events: Great Union of 1918, the emergence of anti-Semitism, the beginning of World War II, the transition of Transylvania to the government of Budapest, deportations to German concentration camps, the struggle for survival, the return from the camps and trying to rebuild the road of life. These events were those that remained in the great history, but in collective memory was preserved the common Jew, the neighbor or the man who sell and buy products from farmers. Jews detained on arrival in the village SăpânŃa financial resources, by which they have bought places for homes with the best location: main street of the village that connected them to the town of Sighet or Satu Mare; the main road was also an essential link with the rest of Transylvania and Tisa river kept them in touch with old Maramureş. This study reveals important aspects of religious life of Jews in Săpânţa, their commercial relationships, educational aspects.

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