14 décembre 2021
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Fani Gargova, « 1) Remembering Sofia’s Romaniote Jewish community », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.27800
This paper showed how the new borders of the Bulgarian nationat the end of the 19th century forced the local Jewish population to reframe the historical understanding and situatedness of its own community in order to envision and negotiate their place in society. It argued that the Sofia Jewish community used a myth of a common, Bulgarian and Jewish, medieval local history as a means of establishing a belonging to the Bulgarian nation. The need arose from the advent of antisemitism and an inc...