Un oraș românesc cu evrei în urmă cu două secole. Bacău-Templul Negustorilor de grâne
One Romanian City with Jews before two century. Bacău-the Temple of the Grain Merchand

Summary/Abstract: The present study present aspects of the Jewish community from local Romanian places during the 19th century, their political and historical context, both the European and Romanian one from that time. Mainly, I have followed the they intergrated in a agricultural , manufacturing and commercial society, mentioning also the experience lived bz the Jewish communities in this part of Europewho is, still today, a delicate subject, insufficiently known. Writting this study, I took in consideration the Jews of Bacău. The present study contains references of documents that have been issued by the Romanian Principalities, the Reform made by Cuya in 1864 and the first Constition from 1866, that have determinated the modernisation of this territories, creating a necessary framework for the Great Union to happen, in 1918, but, which wear explicity, antisemitic, with the exception of the Reform of Cuza. The atmosfere of the time was not favorable for to the integration process and that of finden a home for the Jews. That were coming, trought different migration, from thr north of the Carpathians, and join their emancipations, as for local Jews, with only one difference during the period of prine Alexandru Ioan Cuza, witch gave benefitsthat dissappered imediatly after his foeced abdication, from february 1866. It is important to mention the period before the Great War, mentioned even yhe Minority Treaty from 1919. In the second part of the study we have a material evidencet of the settlement and continuatio of the existence of the Jews in the Romanian Contries, specifically referng to de Jewish identity in allits complexity throught the presentation of the Temple of the Grain Merchantds of Bacău, a cult building, that has been included in the Romanian Cutural Patrimony. This holy places makes the jewish art known, insepable from the evolution of the mosaic cult, from the Temple of Solomon. Pre-exilic temple, continuating with the Temple of Ezekiel, adding after that, elements from the Temple of the Romanite Jews and introducing custamization features of the cult and art, that come drom the jewes of Central and Eastern Europe, knows as the Askenazi Jews.

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