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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Bulgarian Jews

From left: David Leopold, Sasha Wilson, Joseph Cullen, Lawrence Boothman and Clare Fraenkel in 'The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria,' now at 59E59 Theaters. (Carol Rosegg/ via JTA)
May 10, 2024, 10:44 am
New dark comedy for stage asks: Was Bulgaria’s King Boris III friend or foe to the Jews?
The paradoxical leader dabbled in fascism, was loved by his people, saved 50,000 lives while enacting antisemitic laws, and is the subject of a play running in NYC through June 2
By Elizabeth Karpen
King Boris of Bulgaria, wearing civilian dress, left, with Adolf Hitler and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, right, when he paid a visit on May 14, 1941, at Hitler's Rolling headquarters. (AP Photo)
March 17, 2023, 11:26 am
Why Bulgarian Jews skipped an official ceremony marking their rescue from the Nazis
Officials marked 80 years since Tsar Boris III stopped the deportation of the country’s 48,000 Jews; they didn’t mention the 11,000 whose murder by Nazis his government facilitated
By David I. Klein
Dr. Aleksander Hugo Oscar (Courtesy via JTA)
February 2, 2022, 8:22 pm
Bulgarian Jewish leader falsely accused of embezzling, then targeted by antisemitism
Hospital denies media claims that Dr. Aleksander Oscar, president of a local Jewish organization, was ever accused of filing fraudulent medical reports
By David I. Klein
The exterior of the synagogue in Vidin features the outlines of windows in the shape of the Ten Commandments. It was designed by the famed Austrian architect Friedrich Grünanger. (Jonah Goldman Kay/ JTA)
August 17, 2021, 3:14 am
Abandoned Bulgarian synagogue to become cultural center and interfaith hub
While the space will not be used for Jewish prayer services, the infusion of $6 million in EU funding may create a new tourist destination
By Jonah Goldman Kay
Far-right politician Volen Siderov lifts his arm at a political rally in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 11, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
February 20, 2021, 6:59 am
Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules
Judicial system erred when it ignored complaints that far-right politician Volen Siderov incited against Jews and Roma, European Court of Human Rights says
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A photo from the collection of Julio Palencia and Zoe Dragoumis, who were stationed in eight different places around the world including Costa Rica, China, Morocco, South Africa, Turkey and Bulgaria between 1914-1943. (Courtesy Gennadius Library)
April 21, 2020, 10:24 pm
What made an anti-Semitic Spanish diplomat rescue 150 Macedonian Jews? His wife
New evidence shows that Julio Palencia was likely influenced by his Greek spouse, Zoe Dragoumis, to issue last-minute passports, pull 150 off trains – and adopt two Jewish children
By Bernard Dichek
The Jewish cemetery in Shumen, Bulgaria. (Screenshot: Google Street View)
January 21, 2020, 10:55 pm
Jewish cemetery vandalized in Bulgaria
Gravestones broken, fence damaged in city of Shumen, local report says
By Marcy Oster
A bottom of a vessel decorated with a hexagram (Star of David), discovered near the possible 13th century synagogue, in the Tsarevets Palace in ancient Tarnovo, Bulgaria. (courtesy Dr. Mirko Robov)
November 23, 2019, 11:56 am
Odd 13th-century Bulgarian worship hall may be country’s sole medieval synagogue
Its location in a traditionally documented Jewish quarter outside a Middle Ages fort and its unusual architecture leads archaeologist to believe building is a unique synagogue
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder in Leipzig, Germany, August 30, 2010 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)
September 24, 2019, 9:32 am
Bulgaria opens first Jewish school in over 20 years
Eighty-eight students, all under 12, attend the Ronald S. Lauder Day School in Sofia, named for president of World Jewish Congress
By JTA
A synagogue in Sofia. (photo credit: CC-BY Rachel Titiriga, Flickr)
January 21, 2019, 12:21 am
Assailant hurls stones at Sofia synagogue, as others look on
Bulgarian Jewish leader says passersby did nothing to stop brazen attack or apprehend culprit
By Cnaan Liphshiz
This image provided by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Bulgarian policemen overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews to the German death camps in March 1943 in Bulgarian occupied Skopje. (AP Photo/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Jewish Historical Museum, Belgrade)
November 7, 2017, 10:02 am
Russian official wrongly claims Soviets saved Bulgarian Jews from deportation
After monument defaced, Moscow says it saved 50,000 Jews in WWII, but the ‘Red Army was thousands of kilometers away’ at the time
By JTA
Damaged gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Sofia. (Courtesy Shalom organization of Bulgarian Jews)
September 21, 2017, 11:50 pm
Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns vandalism in Sofia Jewish cemetery
Deputy mayor says all damage will be repaired, expresses ‘sincere regret
By JTA
A Holocaust memorial in Vidin, Bulgaria defaced with the words "Allah," "Palestine" and "Hamas" on August 19, 2017. (Facebook screen capture)
August 21, 2017, 6:25 pm
Holocaust monument defaced in Bulgarian town
Mayor of Vidin decries ‘outrageous and unacceptable’ spraying of ‘Palestine’ and ‘Hamas’ on memorial marking rescue of Jews
By JTA
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