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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 ...
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 ...
The number of Jews exiled from Spain is subject to controversy, with highly exaggerated figures provided by early observers and historians offering figures which numbered the hundreds of thousands. By the time of the expulsion, little more than 100,000 practicing Jews remained in Spain, since the majority had already converted to Catholicism.
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.
Many of the Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula during the Spanish Inquisition settled in the Ottoman Empire, leaving behind, at the wake of Empire, large Sephardic communities in South-East Europe: mainly in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
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 ...
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"
Pages in category "History of the Jews in Europe by country" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .