The Dr Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History and the Library of Jewish Studies

In the former Orthodox synagogue of Cluj nowadays functions a part of the Dr Moshe Carmilly Institute for Hebrew and Jewish History founded in October 1990 as part of the Babeş-Bolyai University’s Faculty of History and Philosophy and the Jewish Studies Library founded in 1999. Both institutions are under the aegis of the former chief rabbi of the Neolog Jewish community in Cluj, Dr Moshe Carmilly Weinberger, prominent personality of Cluj in the interwar period. The paper presents the manifold activity of these cultural establishments which preserve and hand down to the younger generations the cultural and historical heritage of the nowadays reduced but until World War II flourishing Jewish community of Cluj.

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