Timisoara (Temesvar, in Hungarian) was part of the Austria-Hungary Empire when this photo was taken. Perhaps the most cosmopolitan city in Romania, Timisoara was home to Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Serbs, Jews, Gypsies and people of other nationalities. Until after WW2 the local Jews were organized in three different communities: a neologist congregation, an orthodox community, and a small Sephardi community, which was the oldest, dating from the 16th century. The Jews of Timisoara were generally well to do and adopted German culture more than in other community in Transylvania.

Five generations of the women of the Kun family, Timisoara, Transylvania, 1908