Grigorescu, Felicia: Forme de artă în cimitire evreieşti din nord-vestul Romaniei (Satu Mare, 2013)

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beginning and the conclusions referred to at the end. The work is the result of pursuit and storage of some previous research and studies, carried out over a long period of time, by professor Silviu Sanie.

The work of Erdélyi Lajos Régi zsidó temetők művészete (The art of old Jewish cemeteries), edited in Hungarian by Kriterion publishing house in 1980, is an attempt to classify the Jewish cemeteries from several areas of the Romania, which the author has visited, under a single name: Judaism. It is about a photo album, together with few considerations on Jewish history in Romania, presenting the contents and meaning of a Jewish cemetery, of its organization as well as to the elements of art that it contains. The work also presents images of north-west Romania, for example from Sapanta, Maramureş county and from Varna, Satu Mare county, representative locations of rural cemetery art from this area. Without going into details, classifications or comparative studies, the work catches some imported aspects in this field, based on which those concerned could build later on. The just over 30 pages, concentrate in text and image, aspects of main characteristics of Jewish cemetery, this work being important for further research in this field.

To these works, we shall add Az észak-erdélyi Holokauszt földrajzi enciklopédiája6 (Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Northern Transylvania) whose author Randolph L. Braham, managed to gather an archive material particularly rich in both information and image. In this work are shown, grouped by regions, localities from Transylvania in which Jews lived, their number at certain time span, the place they had come from, occupations, the communities whom they belonged, information on cemeteries, synagogues, fellowships that were active in different localities, as well as traces of deportations of the communities. The work has been a real help in elaborating this study, for the selection of information that is of importance for the studied area and field.

Regarding Bihor area, the monograph of Jews carried out by the museographer Teréza Mózes, edited first in Hungarian and then translated into Romanian, is a very valuable source of information concerning the beginning and development of the Jewish communities in Bihor area, as well as of the most important Jewish institution: the synagogue and the cemetery. Data used in the work by Teréza Mózes are collected from monographs on Bihor, some of which have become very rare, barely accessible to the researcher.

Regarding the Maramureş area, loan J. Popescu has gathered a material on the Jews community and important events related to this, which he has published in monograph A history of the Jews in Sighet.

Researchers with valuable contributions in the field are Lya Benjamin7 * 9 , ethno- sociologist Hary Kuller or Irina Cajal-Marin, which together or separately have elaborated several studies on Jewish art and civilization.

6 Randolph L. Braham, Az észak-erdélyi holokauszt földrajzi enciklopédiája, Budapest Park Kiadó, Cluj - Napoca Koinónia, 2008, (From now on: Enciklopédia ...)

7 Lya Benjamin and Co, Evreii din Romania în texte istoriografice. Antologie, Ed. Hasefer, Bucharest, 2002, (From now on: historiographic writings...)

x Hary Kuller, The Jewish Press in Bucharest 1857-1994, Bucharest, Ed. Hasefer, 1996, etc.

9 Lya Benjamin, Irina Cajal Marin, Hary Kuller, Mituri, rituri şi obiecte rituale iudaice, Ed. Fundaţiei Culturale Române, Bucharest, 1994. (From now on: Myths...)

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