Summary: The article aims to trace the penetration of anti-Semitic ideas in some circles of Bulgarian society. The research is based on the more or less well-studied special anti-Semitic literature and press, as well as on opinions and ideas expressed in widely circulated and influential national publications. These publications reflect not the most extreme positions, but rather the sentiments expressed in circles close to those of the ruling and opposition parties, or the opinions of the educated elite. The reports of representatives of the Jewish community in the country to the headquarters of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris, are also used, as are individual documents available at the Bulgarian archives. The authors have attempted to answer the following questions: how did the way in which the Bulgarian majority viewed their Jewish fellow citizens change after the establishment of the modern Bulgarian state, and to what extent were anti-Semitic ideas the result of outside influence.
Keywords: anti-Semitism, Jews, Bulgarians
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