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Jews were drafted into the Bulgarian army and fought in the Serbo-Bulgarian War (1885), in the Balkan Wars (1912–13), and in the First World War. 211 Jewish soldiers of the Bulgarian army were recorded as having died during World War I. [3] The Treaty of Neuilly after World War I emphasized Jews' equality with other Bulgarian citizens.
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Jewish Bulgarian history (9 C, 7 P) J. Jews and Judaism in Sofia (2 P) S. Sephardi Jewish culture in Bulgaria (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Jews and Judaism ...
Pages in category "Jewish Bulgarian history" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
After the war, the Bulgarian authorities sought to promote the narrative of the "rescue" of the Bulgarian Jews from the "Old Kingdom", while avoiding the facts of the extermination in the occupied Vardar Macedonia, Western Thrace and the Pirot region. [5] [6] The documents are translated into Macedonian. There are document summaries in English ...