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  • adjective Of Bessarabia.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Bessarabia.

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Examples

  • This requirement, which was eminently reasonable with respect to a Jewish population based on Yiddish or Hebrew culture, such as Bessarabian Jewry, was arbitrary and difficult to implement in the case of the Jews of Transylvania.

    Romania, Women and Jewish Education. 2009

  • Klezmer -- from which the band took its name -- is the joyous, expressive music of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, a sound inspired by Bessarabian Romania, as well as the Roma Gypsies, and is often played at weddings and other celebrations.

    Tom Teicholz: Celebrate a Fantastic Klezmatic Hanukkah Tom Teicholz 2011

  • Schwartz was very active in Bessarabian societies.

    Personal Information for Rose Schwartz 2010

  • Schwartz was very active in Bessarabian societies.

    Personal Information for Rose Schwartz Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • Schwartz went to France and Israel in the early 1950s to see how the Bessarabian refugees were treated and cared for.

    Personal Information for Rose Schwartz Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • Schwartz went to France and Israel in the early 1950s to see how the Bessarabian refugees were treated and cared for.

    Personal Information for Rose Schwartz 2010

  • In 1907, she married Isidor Greenblatt, a fellow Bessarabian immigrant, and they had five children: Herbert, David, Gertrude, Marjorie [Guthrie] and Bernard.

    Aliza Greenblatt. 2009

  • Around 1926, Aron Diamant arrived in the city among a contingent of Bessarabian immigrants.

    Janette Fishenfeld. 2009

  • Her book Bay di bregn fun Dniester (On the Banks of the Dniester, 1925) recounts her experiences living among the homeless victims of the Russian revolution and the pogroms on the Bessarabian-Ukrainian border.

    Rokhl Faygnberg (Imri). 2009

  • I blinked and for a moment I could see them: Emmeline draped across the sofa, all legs and eyelashes, Hannah frowning at one of the books from the library, Teddy pacing the Bessarabian carpet

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

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