Bulgaria

Bulgarian Jews skipped an official ceremony marking 80 years since their rescue from the Nazis. Why?

Tsar Boris III saved Bulgaria’s Jews but was allied with Hitler and oversaw the murder of Jews in territories Bulgaria controlled.

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After outcry, Bulgaria bars neo-Nazis from marching in tribute to Nazi collaborationist leader

The judiciary ruled against the torch-lit march, which has galvanized Europe’s far right, hours before it was set to begin.

North Macedonia’s first Jewish lawmaker quickly broke taboos — and was hit with antisemitism

Rashela Mizrahi has devoted herself to fighting what she sees as her government’s appeasement of its stronger, richer neighbors.

Television host Orlin Gorbanov in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 20, 2016. (Biser Todorov/Wikimedia Commons)

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Bulgarian game show host quotes anti-Semitic rantings by chess champion Bobby Fischer

The far-right politician Volen Siderov lifts his arm at a political rally in Sofia, Bulgaria on March 11, 2011. (Wikimedia Commons)

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Bulgarian courts failed to punish Holocaust denier, European tribunal rules

Parts of a vandalized picnic table arranged in the shape of a swastika near the Jewish cemetery of Krumbach, Germany in 2020. (AllgaeuRechtsaussen)

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Bulgarian synagogue and Halle memorial targeted in spate of crimes on Jewish sites in Europe

A woman from the Bulgarian Jewish community attends a commemoration ceremony at Sofia's synagogue on March 10, 2013 (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

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Coronavirus crisis is testing the resilience of Europe’s small Jewish communities

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Jewish cemetery in Bulgaria vandalized

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Bulgaria opens 1st Jewish school in over 20 years

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Stones hurled into central synagogue in Sofia, Bulgaria

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