Yedintsy
YEDINTSY (Rom. Edineţi), town in N. Moldova in the region of Bessarabia. Yedintsy developed in the first half of the 19th century from a village into an urban settlement as a result of the settlement of Jews who were then coming to Bessarabia. In 1897 the Jews numbered 7,379 (72 percent of the total population) and in 1930 5,341 (90.4 percent). The writer Judah *Steinberg lived there at the end of the 19th century. The institutions of the community included a hospital, established in 1930, and a *Tarbut school.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
T. Fuks, A Vanderung Iber Okupirte Gebitn (1947), index; Eisenberger, in: Arbeter Vort (Nov. 29, 1946); M. Carp, Cartea neagrǎ, 3 (1947), index; BJCE.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2007 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.
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