U.S. Jewish business leaders met with the president of Bulgaria, Peter Stoyanov, who had requested the meeting to solicit investments in the former communist country. The luncheon took place at the home of Andrew Tisch, a member of the board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The JDC presented an award to the Bulgarian leader in recognition of his country’s success at saving its Jewish population from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during World War II.
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