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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 ...
On February 12, 1943, the Council of Ministers approved an agreement for the deportation of 20,000 Bulgarian Jews to Germany. The government only agreed to Jews from the "new" lands, arguing that they were not Bulgarian citizens. In March 1943, 11,480 Jews were deported from Thrace, Macedonia, and the Pirot region.
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.
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 ...
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"
History of the Jews in Europe by country (43 C, 14 P) ... Jews and Judaism in Bulgaria (5 C, 4 P) Jews and Judaism in the Byzantine Empire (5 C, 9 P) C.
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 ...
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 .