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  2. History of the Jews in Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Jews in Bulgaria goes back almost 2,000 years. Jews have had a continuous presence in historic Bulgarian lands since before the 2nd century CE, and have often played an important part in the history of Bulgaria. Today, the majority of Bulgarian Jews live in Israel, while modern-day Bulgaria continues to host a modest Jewish ...

  3. History of the Jews in Sofia - Wikipedia

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    As per the 2021 Bulgarian census, the Jews in Sofia number around 901.. Sofia Synagogue, September 2005. Sofia had Jewish inhabitants before the ninth century; and in 811 the community was joined by coreligionists among the 30,000 prisoners whom the Bulgarian czar Krum brought with him on his return from an expedition against Thessaly, while a number of Jewish emigrants from the Byzantine ...

  4. The Holocaust in Bulgaria - Wikipedia

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    His Commissariat for Jewish Affairs planned the destruction of Bulgaria's Jews before the end of the year. [36] In the course of 1943 nearly all Jews in Bulgaria were incarcerated in prisons, camps, or ghettos. [35] As round-ups of Jews began in 1943, Jews made more numerous efforts to escape and punishments became increasingly harsh.

  5. Historical Jewish population - Wikipedia

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    By the first century, the Jewish community in Babylonia, to which Jews were exiled after the Babylonian conquest as well as after the Bar Kokhba rebellion in 135 CE, already held a speedily growing [3] population of an estimated one million Jews, which increased to an estimated two million [4] between the years 200 CE and 500 CE, both by ...

  6. Plovdiv Synagogue - Wikipedia

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    Nowadays, the Jewish community in Bulgaria is very small (863 in 1994) [6] because of the Holocaust, secularity of the local Jewish population due to many years of communism and subsequent Aliya (Jewish immigration to Israel). In 1994 the synagogue was mostly inactive. [6] but the community is undergoing a revival [7] In 2003 the synagogue was ...

  7. Balkan Jews - Wikipedia

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    Bulgaria, who granted Jews full citizenship in 1880, who was part of the axis powers, tried to give over Bulgarian Jews to the Germans in exchange for its old territories like Thrace or North Macedonia but was met with strong popular resistance. Nevertheless, Bulgaria sent thousands of Jews from the occupied territories to Nazi concentration ...

  8. Jewish ghettos in Europe - Wikipedia

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    More Jews lived in the city of Cracow than in all of Italy, and virtually any medium-sized town in Poland had a larger Jewish population than all of Scandinavia. All of southeast Europe – Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Greece – had fewer Jews than the original four districts of the General Government. — Christopher Browning [36]

  9. History of the Jews in Europe - Wikipedia

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    A notable early event in the history of the Jews in the Roman Empire was the 63 BCE siege of Jerusalem, where Pompey had interfered in the Hasmonean civil war. Jews have had a significant presence in European cities and countries since the fall of the Roman Empire, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and ...