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What happened to the Jews in Moldavia

41 events, 1522 AD to 1945 AD

16th century

  1. 1522 AD Stephen the Younger strips Jewish merchants of rights · Moldavia, Romania
  2. 1541 AD Peter Raresh robs Jewish traders · Moldavia, Romania
  3. 1574–1579 AD Heavy taxation and ill-treatment of Moldavian Jews under Peter the Lame · Moldavia, Romania
  4. 1579 AD Banishment of the Jews ordered in Moldavia · Moldavia, Romania
  5. 1594 AD Jews killed at Jassy in Prince Aaron's rising · Iași, Romania
  6. 1594–1595 AD Princes of Wallachia and Moldavia kill Jewish and Muslim creditors · Wallachia, Romania

17th century

  1. 1640 AD Church laws brand Jews heretics and forbid relations with them · Moldavia, Romania
  2. 1648 AD Cossacks kill Jews while crossing Rumania · Moldavia, Romania
  3. 1652 AD Cossacks attack the Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania

18th century

  1. 1710 AD Blood libel at Neamtz · Târgu Neamț, Romania
  2. 1714 AD Blood libel at Roman · Roman, Romania
  3. 1797 AD Galatz ritual-murder accusation and mob attack · Galați, Romania

19th century

  1. 1815 AD Oppressive plague regulations against Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania
  2. 1821–1822 AD Jews slain and plundered during the Greek Hetæria uprising · Iași, Romania
  3. 1822–1828 AD Ban on Jews making or selling candles and bread to Christians · Iași (Jassy), Romania
  4. 1832 AD Moldavian Organic Law bars Jews from owning village property · Moldavia, Romania
  5. 1834–1848 AD Residence and occupation restrictions on Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania
  6. 1834–1848 AD Vagabondage decree used to despoil the Jews of Jassy · Iași, Romania
  7. 1835 AD Persecution of Mihăileni Jews by Prince Michel Sturza · Mihăileni, Romania
  8. 1839–1843 AD Moldavian laws allow expulsion of "useless" Jews as vagrants · Moldavia, Romania
  9. 1849–1856 AD Jewish children admitted to public schools · Iași, Romania
  10. 1856 AD Treaty of Paris proclaims religious and civil liberties in the principalities · Moldavia, Romania
  11. 1866 AD Anti-Jewish agitation and persecution in Bacau · Bacău, Romania
  12. 1880 AD Expulsion of Jews from villages near Moinești · Moinești, Romania

20th century

  1. c. 1907 AD Expulsion of Jews from Moldavian villages · Dorohoi, Romania
  2. 1907 AD Pillaging of Jewish property in the 1907 peasant revolt · Moldavia, Romania
  3. 1919 AD Emancipation of Romanian Jews · Moinești, Romania
  4. 1927 AD Riots spread to Cluj, Huedin, Targu-Ocna and Jassy · Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  5. 1930 AD Cancellation of Jewish Party's election victory in Mihaileni · Mihăileni, Romania
  6. c. 1939–1945 AD Expulsion of the Jews of Moinesti to Botosani · Moinești, Romania
  7. 1940 AD 1940 Galați massacre · Galați, Romania
  8. 1940 AD Murder of 52 Jews in Dorohoi · Dorohoi, Romania
  9. c. 1940–1941 AD Repression and confiscation of Jewish property under Antonescu · Bacău, Romania
  10. c. 1941 AD Deportation of Mihaileni Jews to Transnistria · Mihăileni, Romania
  11. 1941 AD Iași pogrom · Iași, Romania
  12. 1941 AD Iron Guard massacre of Jews in Iasi · Iași, Romania
  13. 1941 AD Jews of district driven from homes to Bacau and men sent to forced labor · Bacău, Romania
  14. 1941 AD Massacres of Jews in Bessarabia, Bukovina and Dorohoi · Bessarabia, Moldova and elsewhere
  15. 1941 AD Romanian soldiers and police kill Jews in Iasi · Iași, Romania
  16. c. 1942 AD Deportation of 7,000 Jews to Transnistria in 1942 · Chernivtsi (Chernovtsy), Ukraine and elsewhere
  17. 1944 AD Jews forced to dig defense trenches · Bacău, Romania

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