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After the war, most of the Jewish population left for Israel, leaving only about a thousand Jews living in Bulgaria today (1,162 according to the 2011 census). According to Israeli government statistics, 43,961 people from Bulgaria emigrated to Israel between 1948 and 2006, making Bulgarian Jews the fourth largest group to come from a European ...
A monument of gratitude for the rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust was dedicated in the presence of the Israeli Ambassador and other dignitaries in Bourgas, Bulgaria, 75 years after the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews and the deportation of Jews from areas of northern Greece and Yugoslavia under Bulgarian administration. [61]
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 ...
Rosanes was born in 1862 in Rousse, now in Bulgaria, in the Ottoman Empire to an Orthodox Jewish family of Sephardic origin. [2] His family was one of around 200 present in the city at the time. [3] His father, Avraham "Abbir" (1838–1879), was the head of the city's Jewish community, and was a rabbi, teacher, and educator. [4]
In 2017, the Bulgarian Jewish community transferred ownership to the Municipality of Vidin and in May 2021, ground was broken for the synagogue's full reconstruction using EU and national funds. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] On 4 September 2023, the former synagogue reopened as a museum and multi-purpose cultural centre dedicated to the Vidin-born Jewish painter ...
In 1614, there were seven households. That number grew to ten between 1635 and to 41 between 1696-1697. Around 1888, the Jews were 1,277, the highest number in the history of Jews in the city. In 1945, the Jews were up to 826 (303 males, 322 females, 201 children). Their main occupations were trading and carpentry.
Jewish Bulgarian history (9 C, 7 P) J. Jews and Judaism in Sofia (2 P) S. Sephardi Jewish culture in Bulgaria (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Jews and Judaism in Bulgaria"
The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution 1940–1944. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1972. ISBN 0-8229-3251-2. [10] The History of Bulgaria. Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations, 2011, ISBN 978-0-313-38446-2; CHUTZPAH AND NAÏVETÉ: AN AMERICAN GRADUATE STUDENT BURSTS THROUGH THE IRON CURTAIN TO DO RESEARCH IN BULGARIA. Xlibris. 2014.