Jewish community in Bulgaria

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Jewish_community_in_Bulgaria

GPTKB entity

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkbp:country	gptkb:Bulgaria
gptkbp:earliest_presence	gptkb:Roman_period
gptkbp:historicalPopulation	about 50,000 (pre-World War II)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Jewish community in Bulgaria
gptkbp:mainCathedral	gptkb:Sofia_Synagogue
gptkbp:mainLanguage	gptkb:Bulgarian gptkb:Hebrew gptkb:Ladino
gptkbp:majorCity	gptkb:Sofia gptkb:Plovdiv gptkb:Varna
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Annual_March_of_the_Living_in_Sofia Commemoration of Holocaust victims Jewish cultural festivals Post-communist revival Jewish youth organizations Communist era repression 1943 deportation attempt stopped Establishment of Jewish Museum of History in Sofia Interfaith dialogue activities Mass emigration to Israel after 1948 Rescue of Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust Restoration of synagogues Support from American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
gptkbp:notableFestival	gptkb:Hanukkah gptkb:Purim gptkb:Rosh_Hashanah gptkb:Yom_Kippur gptkb:Pesach
gptkbp:notableInstitution	gptkb:Plovdiv_Synagogue gptkb:Lauder-ORT_Jewish_School_Sofia gptkb:Sofia_Jewish_Cemetery
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Joseph_Benaroya gptkb:Salvador_Asher Sofia Cohen
gptkbp:notableOrganization	gptkb:Central_Israelite_Religious_Council gptkb:Jewish_Agency_for_Israel_(Bulgarian_branch)
gptkbp:notablePerson	gptkb:Albert_Cohen gptkb:Isaac_Passy gptkb:Becca_Solomon
gptkbp:notablePublication	gptkb:Evreiski_Vesti
gptkbp:organization	gptkb:Shalom_(Organization_of_the_Jews_in_Bulgaria)
gptkbp:origin	gptkb:Ashkenazi_Jews gptkb:Sephardic_Jews
gptkbp:population	about 2,000 (2023)
gptkbp:religion	gptkb:Judaism
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Central_Israelite_Religious_Council_of_Bulgaria
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6