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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 ...
Tsar Boris III and Adolf Hitler in 1943 Monument in honour of the Bulgarian people who saved Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust, Jaffa. Bulgaria, as a potential beneficiary from the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939, had competed with other such nations to curry favour with Nazi Germany by gestures of antisemitic legislation. Bulgaria ...
The Vidin Synagogue (Bulgarian: Видинска синагога, romanized: Vidinska sinagoga) is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, whose ruins are located at Baba Vida Street, in Vidin, in northwest Bulgaria. Designed in the Romanesque Revival and Rundbogenstil styles, the former synagogue was completed in 1894. [1]
The Sofia Synagogue (Bulgarian: Софийска синагога, Sofiyska sinagoga) is a Romaniote Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Sofia, Bulgaria. Completed in 1909, the synagogue is the largest synagogue in Southeastern Europe, the third-largest in Europe, [1] and one of two active synagogues remaining in Bulgaria.
Bulgaria portal; Judaism portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... Bulgarian-Jewish diaspora (2 C, 2 P) O. Bulgarian ...
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 ...
Nevertheless, Bulgaria sent thousands of Jews from the occupied territories to Nazi concentration camps before the Bulgarians understood what the state was doing. After the war, state propaganda propagated the idea that Tsar Boris III opposed Adolf Hitler and refused to send over the Jews when he was actually the one responsible.
Bulgarian National Revival: not functioning [11] Shumen Synagogue: Shumen: mid-19th century Demolished , בית_הכנסת_בשומן [12] Dobrich Synagogue: Dobrich: 1887 Gotse Delchev Synagogue: Gotse Delchev (town) early 20th century Silistra Synagogue: Silistra: preserved Yambol Synagogue (Bulgaria) Yambol: 1896 now used as George Papazov ...