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The various migrations outside of Bulgaria has produced descendants of Bulgarian Jews mainly in Israel, but also in the United States, Canada, Australia, and some Western European and Latin American countries. Representatives of Bulgaria's Jewish community did not attend an official ceremony in March 2023 celebrating the 80th anniversary of ...
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 Italian occupation zone included the cities of Tetovo, Gostivar, Struga, Debar and Kichevo, a total of 4,314 km2 with 232,000 people, and Bulgaria – Ohrid and Resen. On 10 July, a dispute broke out between Bulgaria and Italy over the mine near Ljuboten, and after Germany's intervention, the mine remained in Bulgaria. On August 12, 1941 ...
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.
City was destroyed and most Jews were exterminated. Later rebuilt. Tauragnai: טאָראָגין Taragin Town survived. Telšiai: טעלז Telz 2,800 (1939) City survived, but most Jews were exterminated. Troškūnai: טראַשקון Trashkun City survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Tryškiai: טרישיק Trishik Town survived. Ukmergė
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"
Bulgaria–Israel relations (4 C, 2 P) Bulgarian diaspora in Israel (2 C) ... Pages in category "Jewish Bulgarian history" The following 7 pages are in this category ...
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 ...