# Popricani

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**Popricani** is a [commune](/source/Commune_in_Romania) in [Iași County](/source/Ia%C8%99i_County), [Western Moldavia](/source/Western_Moldavia), [Romania](/source/Romania), part of the [Iași metropolitan area](/source/Ia%C8%99i_metropolitan_area). It is composed of nine villages: Cârlig, Cotu Morii, Cuza Vodă, Moimești, Popricani, Rediu Mitropoliei, Țipilești, Vânători, and Vulturi.

The commune is located in the east-central part of the county, 16.5 km (10.3 mi) north of the county seat, [Iași](/source/Ia%C8%99i). It is crossed by the [national road](/source/Roads_in_Romania) [DN24C](/source/DN24C), which starts in Iași and goes up along the [Prut River](/source/Prut) valley towards the border crossing with [Moldova](/source/Moldova) at [Lipcani](/source/Lipcani).

## Mass grave

In November 2010, a mass grave dating from 1941 was discovered in the nearby forest of Vulturi. It is believed to contain the remains of up to a hundred Jewish men, women and children murdered by Romanian authorities contemporaneously with the nearby [Iași pogrom](/source/Ia%C8%99i_pogrom).[1][2][3] It is the first such grave found in Romania since the 1945 discovery of 311 bodies at [Stânca-Roznovanu](/source/Victoria,_Ia%C8%99i), also in the vicinity of Iași.[4][5] An official report concluded that the grave contained 36 victims, and that those responsible for the killing had already been sentenced in 1948.[6]

## Popricani in Jewish literature

The village of Popricani was featured in the 1953 memoir *Mayn tatns khretshme* ("My Father's Tavern") by Yiddish writer Yitskhok Horowitz.[7] Horowitz recounts his childhood in the family tavern, growing up in the sole Jewish family in the village of Popricani, with episodic tales of wolves, [Shabbat](/source/Shabbat), and the [1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt](/source/1907_Romanian_Peasants'_Revolt).[8] An English translation of the book, "The Tavern of Popricani" translated by Ollie Elkus, was published by Naydus Press in 2022.[9]

## References

1. ["'Holocaust grave' discovered in Romania"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11703567). BBC News. 5 November 2010. Retrieved 6 November 2010.

1. ["Holocaust-era mass grave discovered"](https://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5i3KwYPbiSWhnhgkPJf_blx666Ngw?docId=N0182611288960976903A). The Press Association (UK). Retrieved 6 November 2010.[dead link]

1. ["Descoperire istorică la Iaşi"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110612160041/http://www.tvr.ro/articol.php?id=91819&c=4765) (in Romanian). TVR. 5 November 2010. Archived from [the original](http://www.tvr.ro/articol.php?id=91819&c=4765) on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 6 November 2010.

1. Marinas, Radu (Nov 5, 2010). ["World War Two mass grave of Jews found in Romania"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120612160823/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE6A41WX20101105?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0). Reuters Africa. p. 2. Archived from [the original](https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE6A41WX20101105?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0) on June 12, 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2010.

1. Braham, Randolph L. (1997). [*The destruction of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews during the Antonescu era*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ONptAAAAMAAJ&q=Stanca+Roznovanu). Holocaust studies series East European monographs. Social Science Monographs. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-88033-380-1.

1. [Decizie fără precedent la Iași privind masacrul evreilor](http://www.ziare.com/stiri/justitie/decizie-fara-precedent-la-iasi-privind-masacrul-evreilor-in-al-doilea-razboi-mondial-1294279), ziare.com, April 2014. Retrieved February 2015.

1. Horowitz, Yitskhok (1953). [*Mayn tatns kretshme*](https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yiddish-books/spb-nybc207049/horowitz-isac-mayn-tatns-kretshme). New York: Farlag Matones.

1. Horowitz, Yitskhok (2022). *The Tavern of Popricani*. Translated by Elkus, Ollie. Cincinnati, Ohio: Naydus Press. ISBN 978-1-7341936-1-9.

1. ["The Tavern of Popricani"](https://nayduspress.org/book/the-tavern-of-popricani/). 6 April 2022.

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