From Sofia to Jaffa : The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel /
Within two years of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, an astounding 45,000 of Bulgaria⁰́₉s 50,000 Jews left voluntarily for Israel. This mass exodus was remarkable considering that Bulgaria was the only Axis power to prevent the deportation of its Jews to the death camps during World...
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Israeli Social Science Looks at Immigration and Ethnicity; Chapter 1: Confronting Mass Immigration; Chapter 2: The Emergence of Culture; Chapter 3: Introspection and Diversification; Part II: The Jews in Bulgaria; Chapter 4: From the First Century to the Ottoman Conquest; Chapter 5: The Ottoman Period: 1389-1878; Chapter 6: From Liberation to World War II: 1878-1940; Chapter 7: The War Years: 1940-1944; Chapter 8: From Liberation to Emigration: 1944-1949
- Part III: The Jews of Bulgaria in IsraelChapter 9: Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 10: Components of Identity; Chapter 11: Folklore and Identity; Epilogue; Appendix A: Statistics; Appendix B: List of Informants; Appendix C: Two Interviews; Notes; Bibliography; Social Scientific Works; Bulgarian Jewry; Index