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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 ...
Jewish ethnic divisions refer to many distinctive communities within the world's Jewish population.Although "Jewish" is considered an ethnicity itself, there are distinct ethnic subdivisions among Jews, most of which are primarily the result of geographic branching from an originating Israelite population, mixing with local communities, and subsequent independent evolutions.
Bulgarian-Jewish diaspora (2 C, 2 P) O. Bulgarian Orthodox Jews (1 C) R. Bulgarian rabbis (2 C, 4 P) S. Bulgarian Sephardi Jews (18 P) Pages in category "Bulgarian Jews"
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 ...
In the Papal States, which existed until 1870, Jews were required to live only in specified neighborhoods called ghettos. [300] World War I poster showing a soldier cutting the bonds from a Jewish man, who says, "You have cut my bonds and set me free—now let me help you set others free!" Islam and Judaism have a complex relationship.
The Jewish population of Europe in 2010 was estimated to be approximately 1.4 million (0.2% of European population) or 10% of the world's Jewish population. [91] In the 21st century, France has the largest Jewish population in Europe , [ 91 ] [ 92 ] followed by the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.
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.
Bulgarian Jews in Israel are Jewish immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Bulgarian Jewish communities, who now reside within the state of Israel. They number around 75,000 in the wider definition, [ citation needed ] and 7,500 in the narrower scope (those with Bulgarian citizenship).