DUMBRAVENI [Dumbraveny, Dombroven, Dumbrăvani, Dambravani, Dombroveni.]

Alternate names: Dumbrăveni [Rom], Dumbraveny and Думбравены [Rus], Dombroven and דאמבראווען [Yid], Dumbrăvani, Dambravani, Dombroveni. 48°03' N, 28°14' E, 8 miles SSW of Soroca (Soroki). [Not one of several places in Romania named Dumbrăveni]. Jewish population: 1,726 (in 1897), 1,198 (in 1930). This was the first Jewish Agricultural Colony in Bessarabia.

• • Sefer Dombroven; ner-zikaron la-moshava ha-haklait ha-yehudit ha-rishonah be-Bessarabia (Jerusalem, 1974)
  • Hayoh, hayetah, 'ayarah monagraf iyah tsiyurit al ayarati Dumbrovan (Jerusalem, 1973)
• KehilaLink. [December 2012]
• Encyclopedia of Jewish Life (2001), p. 345: "Dumbraveni (I)".
• Pinkas HaKehilot, Romania, Vol. 2 (1980), p. 347: "Dumbraveni"
• Shtetl Finder (1989), p. 20: "Dombroven".
• JewishGen Bessarabia SIG

Jewish Cemetery: The Dumbraveni jewish cemetery was destroyed. Only 3 Jewish gravestones survive.