Guide to Jewish Bulgaria by Anthony Georgieff

This is the expanded and updated second edition of the famous Guide to Jewish Bulgaria first published in 2011 and now a collector's item. A Guide to Jewish Bulgaria was designed as a "journey through both time and territory." It contains introductory chapters on early Jewish history in the Balkans, life in the Ottoman Empire (1393-1878), Jewish going-ons in independent Bulgaria (1878-1944), Jewish decline under Communism (1944-1989), and Jewish life post-1989. A special section deals with the famous rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust "paid off" by Jews in Aegean Thrace, Vardar Macedonia and Pirot who were deported to Nazi-occupied Poland. Richly illustrated with superb photography, this book focuses on what remains of the Jewish presence in Bulgaria synagogues, old cemeteries, remnants of Jewish neighbourhoods in Sofia, Plovdiv, Vidin, Ruse, Varna, Burgas, Yambol, Samokov, Dupnitsa, Kyustendil, Gotse Delchev and elsewhere. With practical information how to reach even the lesser, off-the-beaten track sites, addresses, telephone numbers and contact details of Jewish communities. This new edition contains a chapter about Jewish heritage in Bulgaria's neighbouring Turkey, Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania. A must for anyone interested in Jewish heritage in Eastern Europe in general and Bulgaria in particular.