Kolarovgrad
KOLAROVGRAD
KOLAROVGRAD (since 1956, Shumen ), town in eastern Bulgaria. Jews first settled in Kolarovgrad in the 18th century, in what became a special Jewish quarter. The first school to be established by the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Bulgaria (1869), a girls' school, was situated at Kolarovgrad. In 1878 there was a Jewish population of 1,100, in 1910 of 1,200. In 1943 the Jews were threatened with deportation, but the 1943 decree of expulsion from Bulgaria was not carried out. In 2004 there was a small community of around 40 Jews affiliated to the local branch of the nationwide Shalom organization.
bibliography:
S. Mézan, Les Juifs espagnols en Bulgarie (1925), passim.
[Simon Marcus /
Emil Kalo (2nd ed.)]
More From encyclopedia.com
Samarkand , SAMARKAND , capital of Samarkand district, Uzbekistan. Jews are mentioned there from hearsay for the first time by *Benjamin of Tudela (12th century)… Nice , Nice
NICE (Heb. ניצה), capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department, on the Mediterranean coast of France. The first specific mention of Jews can be fou… Ruse , Ruse
RUSE (Russe, Rustchuk ), port city on the Danube in N.E. Bulgaria. The Turkish traveler Evlyia Chelebi (17th century) relates that Jewish mercha… Bas-rhin , Alsace
ALSACE , former province of the Germanic (Holy Roman) Empire, and from 1648, of *France, including the present department of Haut-Rhin and Bas… Shiraz , SHIRAZ , capital of the former province of Fars, S. *Iran. The existence of a Jewish community in Shiraz is attested by Persian and Arab geographers… Marseilles , MARSEILLES , capital of the department of Bouches du Rhône; second largest town in France. The earliest recorded presence of Jews in Marseilles can b…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
Kolarovgrad