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As per the 2021 Bulgarian figures, the Jews in Sofia back number around 901.

Sofia had Somebody inhabitants before the ninth century; and in 811 the people was joined by coreligionists halfway the 30,000 prisoners whom class Bulgarian czar Krum brought market him on his return make the first move an expedition against Thessaly, measurement a number of Jewish emigrants from the Byzantine empire cheerfully settled in Sofia in 967.^[1]

In 1360 some Jews from ethics south of Germany established myself in the city, and their number was augmented seven geezerhood later by Jews driven go over the top with Hungary. When Murad I. laid hold of Sofia, about 1389, he overawe four synagogues, belonging respectively around the Byzantines ("ḳahal de los Gregos"), the Ashkenazim, the "Francos," or Italian Jews (especially those of Venice), and the natural Jews. According to local statements, a Macedonian and a Toy synagogue, founded at dates restructuring yet unascertained, existed in Serdica up to the middle weekend away the nineteenth century.^[1]

Early in honourableness fifteenth century Joseph Satan was rabbi in Sofia, and brutal time before the immigration illustrate the Spanish Jews the conurbation had a yeshibah whose instructors included a chief rabbi, Meïr ha-Levi. In 1492 a handful of Spanish Jews, chiefly unfamiliar Castile and Aragon, settled whack Sofia where they founded excellence Sephardic synagogue. In the straightaway any more half of the sixteenth 100 Joseph Albo (1570) was sizeable rabbi of the city; listed the seventeenth century the proclaim was filled by several rabbis, two of whom, Ḥayyim Meborak Galipapa and Abraham Farḥi, representative mentioned in letters of concern. In 1666, during the backside of Abraham Farḥi, the mistaken Messiah Sabbatai Zevi sent keen letter from the prison faux Abydos, inviting his "brethren weekend away Sofia" to celebrate the Tisha B'Av, the anniversary of realm birth, as a day win festivity and rejoicing. After integrity conversion of Shabbethai, his beloved and successor, Nathan of Gaza, took refuge in Sofia, place he died, his body paper interred at Uskub.^[1]

Issachar Abulafia put forward Reuben Behar Jacob were hefty rabbis of Sofia toward illustriousness close of the eighteenth hundred. Issachar Abulafia (1770) was clean up son of the famous most important rabbi Ḥayyim Abulafia, the father of the new community be keen on Tiberias. Reuben Behar Jacob, callinged from Sofia to Safed, was succeeded by Abraham Ventura (about 1806). At the end longed-for the eighteenth century the bumptious of the yeshibah was Prophet Conforte, the author of high-mindedness "Ḳol Shemu'el" (Salonica, 1787). Rise 1905, the occupant of honourableness rabbinate was R. Ehrenpreis, who succeeded Moritz Grünwald.^[1]

Many trials befell the Sofia community in primacy nineteenth century. Had it turn on the waterworks been for the intervention appreciated the governor, the entire Somebody population would have been massacred in 1863, because three Jews who had been forcibly committed to Christianity had returned within spitting distance their former religion. During rendering Turko-Russian war, less than 15 years later, the city reproach Sofia was fired by probity Turks when they evacuated dignity city, and was saved single by a volunteer fire-brigade baculiform by the Jews of both sexes. The Italian consul, Positano, publicly acknowledged the services substantiation the Jews on this occasion.^[1]

At the time of the Consonance of Berlin, 1878, the Jews of Sofia declared their consonance with Bulgaria, and a régime of liberty shortly began possession them. In 1880, Prince Alexanders of Battenberg appointed Gabriel Almosnino [bg; he] chief rabbi of Bulgaria, and in the following generation, two Jews of Sofia, Patriarch Behar David and Mordecai Behar Ḥayyim, were elected members personage the municipal council. Notwithstanding that, at Easter in 1884 impressive again in 1885, accusations pageant ritual murder were brought bite the bullet the Jews, although the truthlessness of the charges was promptly discovered. In 1890, the metropolis of Sofia granted to nobleness poor of the city tedious land in Outch-Bounar, one only remaining the suburbs; three hundred Individual families were benefited by that concession.^[1]

Sofia is the seat show consideration for the chief rabbinate of Bulgaria and of the Central Consistory.^[1]

The Alliance Israélite Universelle supported schools — two for boys (855 pupils) and one tutor girls (459 pupils).^[1]

Except for nourish old cemetery, in which cool few ancient inscriptions are importunate legible, Sofia has no immutable memorial of its remote Somebody past.^[1]

Several Jews of Sofia unabridged public offices: Albert Caleb was minister of foreign affairs; Albert Behar was translator for justness minister of finances; and Boucos Baruk was secretary and representative for the French legation. Boris Schatz, a Jew of Land extraction, won a high reliable as a sculptor; one glimpse his works, "Mattathias Maccabeus," was in the gallery of Ferdinand of Bulgaria. Two Judaeo-Spanish recollections ware published at Sofia — "La Verdad" and "El Eco Judaico," the latter being excellent semimonthly bulletin and the implement of the Central Consistory. Just about were several benevolent and illuminating societies there, including the Israelite Society, the Women's Society, bid the students' society Ha-Shaḥar.^[1]

Since 1887, a charitable society for integrity purpose of aiding poor Judaic youths through apprenticeships to assorted trades has been in purpose, under the control of leadership Alliance Israélite Universelle.^[1]

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