Details: Yedinitz, Bessarabia, compared to where we live today, was a small shtetl. Yet for us, it was a city. I can still see the streets and small lanes. Here is the small marketplace, the Torhovitse as we used to call it, where the peasants’ fair used to take place. In the center was the church, whose bells, whenever they rang, would strike a feeling of fear in me. A few streets further away was the ‘Patchova’, a street where one simply took walks, where you could have a conversation with your friends, where one discussed and argued with those of opposing views, and where the meetings of young couples in love took place. This main street, more than a kilometer in length, had everything. Here could be found both small and large grain merchants. Here were displayed the workshops of blacksmiths, barrel makers, carpenters, furriers, and other workers. Here one could find little stalls, and all kinds of stores and shops. It had a bathhouse, a poorhouse, a large synagogue, and the main street going in front of and behind the marketplace. Gates. A tailor street and a Gypsy Street. Yedinitz had prestigious Jews, merchants, shopkeepers, artisans, and menial laborers. Jewish merchants and Jews in the marketplace who would sell cheese, whey, and honey. There were grain merchants, moneylenders, business owners, and numerous poor people. There were doctors and feldshers (paramedics) in the shtetl. (Excerpt from In Our Shtetl We Had... by Gedalye Gruzman) Compiled over a period of 20 years, this is the Memorial Book of Yedinitz, written by survivors and landsmen, finally available in an English translation. These voices speak to us from the past, vividly recounting the life and destruction of a once vibrant Jewish community.   Alternate names: Edineţ [Rom], Edinets [Mold], Edintsy [Rus], Yedinets [Yid], Jedeńcy [Pol], Edineti, Ediniţa, Edinita Targ, Ediniţa-Târg, Jedyńce, Jedincy, Yedintsy, Yedinits, Yedintzi, Yedinitz, Yedintsy-Tyrg Edineţ, Moldova is located at 48°10' N 27°18' E and 108 miles NW of Chişinău   Nearby Jewish Communities: Ruseni 6 miles ENE Sokyryany, Ukraine 20 miles NNE Rujniţa 8 miles NE Hăneşti, Romania 23 miles SW Cepeleuţi 9 miles N Rădăuţi, Romania 23 miles W Pociumbăuţi 12 miles S Voloshkova, Ukraine 24 miles NNE Corjeuţi 12 miles WNW Lipcani 24 miles WNW Donduşeni 14 miles ENE Săveni, Romania 25 miles SW Bulboaca 15 miles NNW Ştefăneşti, Romania 26 miles S Ocniţa 16 miles NNE Chetrosu 28 miles ESE Briceva 17 miles ESE Otaci 29 miles NE Briceni 17 miles NW Yaryshiv, Ukrainen 30 miles NNE Grimăncăuţi 18 miles NW Stara Ushytsya, Ukraine 30 miles NNW Rîşcani 19 miles SE Rudi 30 miles ENE Lipnic 19 miles NNE Neporotovo, Ukraine 30 miles N Mohyliv-Podilskyy, Ukraine 30 miles NE

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