Annual. (Social, Cultural and Educational Association of the Jews in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Central Board, 1966-). [First 4 vols. in Bulgarian] The annual publication of the main organization of Jews in Bulgaria, which includes many biographies.
American Sephardi Federation DS135 .B8S64 1970; YIVO 000068224; YIVO 500760604
Arditti, Beniamin. Vidni Evrei v Bulgaria [Well Known Jews in Bulgaria], 3 vols. (Tel-Aviv: Benyamin Arditti, 1969-1971). [In Hebrew] 124 biographies of 89 different persons who played a role in Bulgaria’s Jewish communities from 1850 to 1970, including some photographs.
American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B85 A12 1969 Besso CIN=RCB
Arditti, Benjamin Joseph. Yehude Bulgaryah: Kehilat Shumlah [The Jews of Bulgaria: Shumen Community] (Tel Aviv: Hutsa ‘al Yede va’Adah Tsiburit, 1968). [In Hebrew] The first chapters have a history of the community. The last chapter has biographies, a list of local family names with origins and meanings, and other lists of individuals from the community.*
YIVO Shumen 2003 (1968); American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B83 S53 1968 Besso
*Available online from the New York Public Library at http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2323
Chary, Frederick B. The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, 1940-1944 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1972).
YIVO 000070908; American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B8 C53 1972
Covo, Joseph. Yehude Rusts'uḳ, Bulgaryah: Ben Mizraḥ Le-Maʻarav [Jews of Ruschuk, Bulgaria: Between East and West] ([Israel]: Yosef Ḳovo, 2002). [In Hebrew] Includes a list of surnames found in Ruschuk.
YIVO 000109961; American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B83 R873 2002
Elazar, Daniel Judah. The Balkan Jewish Communities: Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey (Lanham, MD : American University, 1984). YIVO 000084211; American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B3 B35 1984
The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust. A collection of texts with commentary by Tzvetan Todorov; translated by Arthur Denner. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).
YIVO 000105396; American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B8 .F7313 2001
Haskell, Guy H. From Sofia to Jaffa: The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1994).
YIVO 000086768
Kechales, Haim. Ḳorot Yehude Bulgaryah [History of the Jews of Bulgaria] ([Tel Aviv]: Davar, 1969). [In Hebrew]
YIVO 000072756; American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B8 K43 1969
Keren, Zvi. The Jews of Rusçuk: From Periphery to Capital of the Tuna Vilayeti (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2011).
American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B83 R873513 2011
Romano, A., Joseph Ben, and Nissim Levy. Yahadut Bulgaryah [Jews of Bulgaria]. (Yerushalayim: Ḥevrat "Entsiḳlopedyah shel Galuyot" [Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora], 1967). [In Hebrew]
YIVO Bulgaria 1967; American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B8 Y35 1967
* Available online from the New York Public Library at http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=1391
Tagger, Mathilde A. “Bulgaria”, in Sallyann Amdur Sack and Gary Mokotoff, eds., Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, pp. 247-249 (Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, 2004). Includes information on obtaining records and an excellent bibliography.
Genealogy Institute CS 21 .A98 2004
Tagger, Mathilde A. "A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames in Bulgaria: A Window on Its History." In: Avotaynu Volume XXV, No. 4 (Winter 2009), pp. 12-17. Genealogy Institute Periodicals
Tagger, Mathilde A., and Yitzchak Kerem. Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel. (Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, 2006). Genealogy Institute CS66.J4 .T34 2006
Tamir, Vicki. Bulgaria and Her Jews: The History of a Dubious Symbiosis (NY: Sepher-Hermon Press for Yeshiva University Press, 1979). YIVO 000077799; American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B8 T35 1979
Trankova, Dimana, and Antonin Georgiev. A Guide to Jewish Bulgaria ([Sofia]: Vagabond Media, 2011).
American Sephardi Federation DS 135 .B8 T736 2011
Fragility of Goodness by