Guide to Jewish Bulgaria

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Authors: D. Trankova, A. Georgieff
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Dimana Trankova, Anthony Georgieff. A Guide to Jewish Bulgaria
Second, expanded and updated edition
Cartegory: Jewish studies
Language: English

A Guide to Jewish Bulgaria was designed as a "journey through both time and territory." It contains introductory chapters on early Jewish history in the Balkans, life in the Ottoman Empire (1393-1878), Jewish going-ons in independent Bulgaria (1878-1944), Jewish decline under Communism (1944-1989), and Jewish life post-1989. A special section deals with the famous rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust "paid off" by Jews in Aegean Thrace, Vardar Macedonia and Pirot who were deported to Nazi-occupied Poland.

Richly illustrated with superb photography, this book focuses on what remains of the Jewish presence in Bulgaria now: synagogues, old cemeteries, remnants of Jewish neighbourhoods in Sofia, Plovdiv, Vidin, Ruse, Varna, Burgas, Yambol, Samokov, Dupnitsa, Kyustendil, Gotse Delchev and elsewhere. This new edition contains a chapter about Jewish heritage in Bulgaria's neighbouring states: Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.

Table of contents

Preface

Early History

From the Middle Ages to 1878

Jews in Independent Bulgaria

Second War War

Emigration to Eretz Israel

Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews

Exodus

Time of the Commissars

New Beginning

Sofia

Vidin

Ruse

Shumen

Silistra

Varna

Burgas

Karnobat

Plovdiv

Pazardzhik

Gotse Delchev

Kyustendil

Samokov

Dupnitsa

Off the Beaten Track

Antisemitism in Bulgaria

Around Bulgaria

Turkey

Greece

Serbia

North Macedonia

Romania

Details
Publisher	Vagabond Media
Language	English
Pages	192
Illustrations	b/w and color figures
Binding	hardback
ISBN	978-619-91312-4-4
Creation date	2021
Size	22 х 21 cm