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My family is from pretty close to there (on the modern Ukrainian side not Romanian, but Hungarian and Eastern Yiddish speaking), so I’ve always seen it spelled
by woodruffw 2y ago
My family is from pretty close to there (on the modern Ukrainian side not Romanian, but Hungarian and Eastern Yiddish speaking), so I’ve always seen it spelled “Szatmar.”
But yeah, looks like “Satmar” is much more common in English and there’s no ז in the Yiddish spellings either.