Jewish House, 1860
The locality of Poienile Izei, attested in the documents since 1430, is situated in the centre of Maramureș, near the mountain chain Oaș-Gutâi-Țibleș.
The people settled here are represented by Romanian people, and with them, there were lived other ethnicities, among them being included the Jewish people. The inhabitants' main occupations were animal and fruit growing, and in a smaller extent, the agriculture, especially the corn cultivation.
The house of Petreuș Vasile in Poienile Izei, built in 1860 and transferred in the museum in 1930, belonged to a member of the Jewish community from this locality, community that had 185 Jewish people at the census of 1910, respectively 159 at the census of 1930. The Jewish household from the museum is formed of the house and the stable with the barn. The house is placed on stone socket, being completely built in pine planks plastered in the inside with clay, and afterwards whitewashed. Under the main room, there is a dome basement. The roof with four slopes of the building has a trickle covering.
In the project, the house has five rooms: a “L”-shape hallway, two living rooms, a pantry, and a small space with the access from the outside, called “miserniță”, space designed for slaughter of the animals, and for the meat cutting for the sale. In the two rooms, together with some Jewish objects, there can also be seen furniture pieces dating from the interwar period, even older, and also household objects. In the pantry, people kept alcoholic beverages sold to the villages.
The family of the last owner of this household was composed in the interwar period of four members: Strul Wiesel, the head of the household, his wife and their two daughters. Beside producing and selling apple or plums «spirit», the family owned 150 sheep, and from their wool, the two daughters manufactured hats by working with the sewing machine for the people in the village.
