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Bucharest

Romania

Bucharest, the capital of Romania, had one of the largest Jewish communities in the Balkans, with Sephardi and Ashkenazi congregations. Rabbi Meir Leibush Weisser (the Malbim), the renowned biblical commentator, served as chief rabbi of Bucharest in the mid-nineteenth century, where his opposition to communal reformers led to bitter conflict.

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