Tag #136825 - Interview #78481 (Samuel Izsak)

In the case of the Jewish community of Kolozsvar we cannot speak of a true rebirth. The community has several hundred members. I don’t know exactly how many, but I suspect there are around 300. There is no rabbi, just some chazzan who is familiar with the ceremonies and the prayer order. There is a prayer house and a synagogue on Horea Street that leads to the railway station. That’s the memorial synagogue for the deported. It was renovated after the war and a memorial tablet was placed on it. We don’t go to the synagogue, not even on high holidays, as before 1989. We don’t celebrate the holidays at home, either. At most I take a book on Jewish history and read the part referring to a specific holiday.