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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 ...
In 1360 some Jews from the south of Germany established themselves in the city, and their number was augmented seven years later by Jews driven from Hungary. When Murad I. seized Sofia, about 1389, he found four synagogues, belonging respectively to the Byzantines ("ḳahal de los Gregos"), the Ashkenazim, the "Francos," or Italian Jews ...
The Holocaust in Bulgaria was the persecution of Jews between 1941 and 1944 in the Tsardom of Bulgaria and their deportation and annihilation in the Bulgarian-occupied regions of Yugoslavia and Greece during World War II, arranged by the Nazi Germany-allied government of Tsar Boris III and prime minister Bogdan Filov. [1]
The Plovdiv Synagogue, officially the Zion Plovdiv Synagogue (Bulgarian: Паметник за спасение на пловдивските евреи Шофар, lit. 'Shofar for the salvation of Plovdiv Jews'), is a Romaniote Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Built in 1892, the synagogue is one of ...
1. During the period 1910 - 1920 Bulgaria suffered physical loss of population as follows: About 140,000 died in the wars (Balkan War I, Balkan War II, World War I), mostly of reproductive age; About 276,000 people in Southern Dobruja, who cross into Romania, and more on the western outskirts, who cross into Serbia. 2.
Bulgaria–Israel relations (4 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "Jewish Bulgarian history" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
History. The Jewish communities of the Balkans were some of the oldest in Europe and date back to antiquity. The oldest communities of Jews in the port cities of the Balkans date back to the 4th century B.C during the reign of Alexander the Great in what would become North Macedonia. Communities continued to form in Dalmatia, Slavonia, and ...
Bulgarian people of Jewish descent. Jews by nationality. Jews and Judaism in Bulgaria. European Jews. Ethnic groups in Bulgaria. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Automatic category TOC generates no TOC.