JEWISH BULGARIA EXHIBITION IN SOFIA
Over 100 visitors, including diplomats, business people, members of the Jewish community, journalists and representatives of the NGO sector, attended the opening of the Jewish Bulgaria exhibition at the Culture Ministry Sredets Gallery in Sofia, on 26 September. The exhibition, consisting over about 40 large-scale photographs, explores the heritage of over 18 centuries of continuous Jewish presence in the Bulgarian lands.
The exhibition covers some of the mesmerising and atmospheric remains of Jewish heritage in Bulgaria: from the mosaics of a 2nd century synagogue in Plovdiv, to abandoned and crumbling synagogues and cemeteries, the only reminders of the Jewish presence in a number of cities where the community left, in 1949-1951.
Before Sofia, the Jewish Bulgaria exhibition by Anthony Georgieff was on in Prague and in London. The exhibition was organised with the support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation and the Embassy of Israel in Bulgaria.
Irit Lillian, Ambassador of Israel
Author Anthony Georgieff
Maksim Benvenisti, former chairman of the Shalom Organisation of Bulgarian jews
From left: Victor Schiller and Nancy Schiller, President and CEO of the America for Bulgaria Foundation, and Vagabond's Dimana Trankova
Lynn Daft, member of the ABF's Board of Directors
From left: American Ambassador Eric Rubin, Brazilian Ambassador Ana Maria Sampaio Fernandes and Irish Ambassador Mike Forbes
Desislava Taliokova, ABF
Frank Bauer, President Emeritus of the ABF
Viktor Melamed, PR and consultant
Chris Matlon, Chairman of the ABF's Board of Directors
Maria Tyropoli of the Greek Embassy
Professor Albena Taneva, Sofia University
Marshall Lee Miller, member of the ABF's Board of Directors
Philosopher Georgi Lozanov
Pam Dunn
Kennet Vander Weele, member of the ABF's Board of Directors, and Linda Vander Weele
Former foreign ministers Gergana and Solomon Passy
Michael Dunn, member of the ABF's Board of Directors
Photographer Ivo Hadzhimishev
From left: Rebecca Matlon and Marlene Miller
Lenko Lenkov, ABF
From left: Kristina Panayotova, Gergana Shkodrova, Elena Filipova and Simona Zdraveva from Vagabond Media
Boni Bonev, chairman of the Bulgarian-Swiss Chamber of Commerce
Vanya Grigorova, ABF
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