== A few things == 
 Very glad to see this article started. One I wanted to see, but don't know enough to write myself. 

 Some questions: 

 # What exactly are the geographical limits of Văcăreşti? If I understand correctly, when we say "completely torn down by Ceauşescu" that isn't quite right: for example the State Jewish Theater remains, as do a few other buildings right near it, and I'm sure they count as part of Văcăreşti. I also remember a church about a block north of there that still survives, and seem to remember a couple of intact streets of houses, though these last might have been outside of Văcăreşti proper. 
 # To what extent does Văcăreşti intersect the devastated area that became known as Hiroshima? 
 # "Almost all the Jews emigrated to the newly-created state of Israel after World War II." That seems an oversimplification. As I understand it, the Jews left in a more or less steady stream over the course of decades. We shouldn't oversimplify that. And there was significant Jewish life in the quarter for at least a generation after the war. The State Jewish Theater was performing almost entirely in Yiddish without simultaneous translation into Romanian into the 1970s: that speaks volumes. 

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