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A treasured manuscript of the Torah, containing the five books of Moses, was among the Holy Scrolls destroyed by the Roumanian anti-Semitic students in the riots at Oradeamare. The manuscript was 1100 years old and was greatly valued by the Jewish communities in Transylvania, it being one of the oldest Torahs to be found in […]

December 19, 1927
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A treasured manuscript of the Torah, containing the five books of Moses, was among the Holy Scrolls destroyed by the Roumanian anti-Semitic students in the riots at Oradeamare.

The manuscript was 1100 years old and was greatly valued by the Jewish communities in Transylvania, it being one of the oldest Torahs to be found in Europe.

Dramatic scenes were enacted at the Jewish cemetery in Kishineff, Bessarabia, now a part of Roumania, when a number of the desecrated Holy Scrolls were buried with solemn rites on Friday. The portions of the Torah were found strewn in railway cars which were a part of the special train which brought the students back to Bucharest from the Oradeamare congress. Chief Rabbi Zirelson officiated at the exercises which moved the large crowds to deep sorrow.

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