ROMANIAN SYNAGOGUES – BETWEEN WEST AND EAST (TRENDS AND TENDENCIES IN THE SYNAGOGAL ART IN ROMANIA)
ROMANIAN SYNAGOGUES – BETWEEN WEST AND EAST (TRENDS AND TENDENCIES IN THE SYNAGOGAL ART IN ROMANIA)

Summary/Abstract: The synagogues dealt with in this short presentation generally date from the second half of the 19th and the first decades of the 20th century; only few of them were built in the late 17th or 18th century. The relatively numerous synagogues still standing are the most visible proof of the rich Jewish heritage in Romania. Spread all over the country, they present a complex, often heterogeneous, typology, but also fascinating particular traits and an outstanding variety of architectonic solutions both for their facades and interiors. Even this rough classification proves that Romania is an important crossroad for trends, people and ideas and, as far as the Jews were concerned, the place where the Yiddish of Orthodox Judaism could be heard along Ladino and German, the vernacular of the Haskala activists.

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