The government has awarded the “Order of the Popular Republic of Bulgaria” to Jewish writer Isaac Moshev on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Moshev, who fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco and who was a prisoner in the St. Cyprien concentration camp in France, is a former secretary of the Bulgarian Jewish Central Consistory. He was also a member of the Central Union of Jewish Cultural Centers in Bulgaria.
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