Summary: The study examines the factors that influenced the development of the educational activities of the Jews minority in Bulgaria. Among the external factors it should point out the role of international Jewry in the establishment of modern secular Jewish education after the Liberation and in the revival of the Jewish education after 1989. The significance of the Jewish community in no less important, since from the beginning of the 20th century made its main task the provision of quality education for its members. This explains the upward development of educational work in periods when it was not hindered and restricted by the Bulgarian state.
Keywords: Alliance Israélite Universelle, Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, Jewish education, ORT, Shalom
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