during the 14th century. 
From the 18th century until
the beginning of the first 
world war it was part of the
Habsburg dynasty. During 
more than two centuries it 
was formed by the active 
religious and sociable living
together of men of different
cultures in the boarderland 
of the Bukowina. Since 1918
the Bukowina, and together
with it also Siret, belongs to
Romania. The cultural sister
-town Cernowitz, who has 
the same Jewish background
belongs to the Ukraine today.
The represented gravestones
mainly date from the 18th to
the 20th century, the flower-
ing time of the stonemasons. 
A piece of Jewish history is 
carved into the stone and 
gives an inside into Jewish 
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