Private Tour
4h Jewish Legacy in Bucharest - Private Tour by Car and Walking
Overview
Available languages
4 hours
Mobile ticket
This is a private tour.
Only your group will participate.
On this tour you will visit the most significant sights that are connected with the life of the Jews from Bucharest.
We will pick you up from your hotel and drive to Coral Temple, the most beautiful temple in Bucharest. Here we meet a guide with jewish origins, who will tell us of his extraordinary experience and the history of the Jews in Romania.
Then we will go to the Holocaust Museum which is hosted by a Great Synagogue. Here another guide with Jewish origins will picture us about the regrettable situation of the Holocaust in Bucharest.
Next comes a visit to the Jewish Theater where we will see the most important unity of Jewish culture.
The tour inculates and visits the Holocaust monument that has the role of keeping history alive and not repeating the mistakes of the past.
Unfortunately, during the Second World War, Romania followed the policy of extermination of the Jews dictated by Hitler.
Additional Info
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The Jewish Theatre can be visited only if there are no rehearsals
The Mamular Synagogue is not open every day
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Private transportation
Professional tour guide in English
Jewish State Theatre 25 RON -
Museum of Jewish Community 30 RON -
Choral Temple 30 RON -
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
What To Expect
The Choral Temple
The Choral Temple is a synagogue located in Bucharest. It is a copy of Vienna’s Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse Great Synagogue. The synagogue was devastated by the far-right Legionaries/Nazis, but was then restored after World War II, in 1945. It still hosts daily religious services in the small hall, being one of the few active synagogues in the city and in Romania.
Museum of History of the Jewish Community
The amazing Holy Union Temple synagogue was constructed in 1836, this building has served as a museum of Jewish history since 1978. A number of separate exhibitions display how the once vibrant Jewish community of Bucharest used to live, while there is also an impressive Jewish liturgical collection, most of which was assembled by Moses Rosen, Romania's chief rabbi from 1964-94 who founded the museum.
Options
Private tour in English
Only your group will participa
Pickup included
Reviews
17 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Jewish Bucharest with closed synagogues
STUART G,
Aug 15, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Radu was an excellent guide, a retired chemical engineer, who knew much about the history of his country.
excellent tour and tour guide razvan
mimi a,
Aug 7, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00this was an excellent informative tour of the jewish quarter its synagogues museum and theatre..... even if you are not jewish you will love it!
Our guide was very...
Antoinette D,
May 30, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Our guide was very knowledgeable. He made the tour because he was born in Bucharest and had so much of his life to share. It is too bad that there isn’t more offered on Jewish history in Bucharest compared to Budapest, Poland and Prague.
We recommend this tour
alandg2019,
May 24, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Spent a lovely day with Radu. Not only is he well versed in history but he is a pleasant and kind man. Great sense of humor. Next day he got in touch with us to let us know about things going on in town that he thought we would like. We recommend his tour.
Only one of the three...
James D,
May 10, 2025
- Review from Viator
3.00Only one of the three synagogues was open. The guide tried to compensate by driving around. He was friendly and knowledgeable. Overall, it was overpriced.
Highly Informative Due to Expert Guide
GeraldPeter D,
Jun 13, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00This was the best guided tour I have ever taken. The guide has deep knowledge of the subject and explained what I was experiencing very comprehensively which was exactly what I hoped for. Highlights were arriving at the Great Synafogue during the procession of the Torah and visiting the Yiddish Theater. The guide was very straightforward in discussing Romania's role in the Holocaust which I respected. This is a deeply moving tour.
Great tour
Graham R,
Jun 2, 2024
- Review from Viator
4.00The tour guide Radu was wonderful, so knowledgeable about all things. The synagogues were great, we didn’t enjoy the Jewish theatre quite as much.
Amazing guide
FrequentFlier744242,
Apr 30, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Radu was an amazing guide. He managed to get us into synagogues that were closed for the holidays. He took his time and didn’t rush us anywhere. He made all the information sound vital and interesting.
Eloquently stated !
Viviana C,
Dec 1, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Catalin provided a narrative of Romanian Jewish history that reflected a deep respect for the suffering and tragedies known to have occurred in the spaces he introduced very eloquently! I was fortunate to communicate with him in both Romanian as well as English and he has clearly mastered the ability to use easy language as a mechanism to relay complex and deeply meaningful concepts relating to painful historical facts. Thank you for an enlightening guide. I recommend his work to anyone seeking insights into Romanian and Romanian Jewish history.
Jewish Life in Bucharest by private car
Roberta s,
Nov 2, 2023
- Review from Viator
5.00Radu was fabulous. He was incredibly knowledgeable about Jewish history in Romania. He took us to the few remaining synagogues in Bucharest which are unfortunately closed right now due to the current situation in Israel. We spent a lovely half hour with Marcel finding out about the only theatre in the world that has plays done entirely in Yiddish. We very much enjoyed spending time and learning about Romanian Jewish history and culture. We highly recommend Radu.
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