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Arditti, B.J. Yahadut Bulgaria - HaKehila Shumle, [Judaism in Bulgaria - The Community in Shumle, in Hebrew], Holon: Arditti, l968.

Arditti, B.J. Yehudey Bulgaria - Be'Shnot Ha Mishtar Ha Nazi, 1940 - 1944, [The Jews of Bulgaria under the Nazi Regime, 1940 - 1944, in Hebrew], Holon: Arditti, l962.        

Arditti, B.J.   Roliata na Zar Boris III pri izselvaneto na evereite ot Bulgaria [The Role of King Boris III in the Deportation of the Jews from Bulgaria, in Bulgarian], Tel Aviv: Arditti, l952.      

Asa, H. The History of the Bulgarian Jewish Community during the Second World War, Rabbinical Thesis, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, 1963.

Baruch, N. Ha Kofer, [The Ransom, in Hebrew], Tel Aviv, "Shvilim" Publishing House, 1990.

Bar-Zohar, M. "Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews", Adams Media Corp., 1998.

Ben Arroyo, R. Ne Duvarshenya Put Na Neguvu Velichestvo... Is Spomenite Na Edin ot Mnogoto ot Evreyskite Truduvi Lageri [The Unfinished Path of His Majesty...Memories of One out of the Many in the Jewish Forced Labor Camps, in Bulgarian], Bat Yam, Israel: Ben Arroyo, l975.

Canetti, E. The Tongue Set Free, Remembrance of a European Childhood, translated from the German by J. Neugroschel, New York: Continuum, l983.

Chary, F. B. The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution, l940-1944, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, l972.

Chary, F. B. (untitled article in progress, on the survival of the Bulgarian Jews during World War II and the polemics that followed, for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. To be published, l99l).

Cohen, A. and Assa, A. Saving of the Jews in Bulgaria 1941 - 1944, translated from Bulgarian by L. Dimova; Sofia: State Publishing House "Septemvri," State Printing House "Georgy Dimitrov," and the Central Board of the Public Cultural and Educational Organization of jews in Bulgaria; 1977.  

Confino, B. Aliya Bet Mechofay Bulgaria, l938-l940, l948-l947; Chisul Galut Bulgaria, l948 - l949,  ["Aliya Bet" from the Beaches of Bulgaria, l938-l940, l948-l947; End of the Bulgarian Diaspora, l948-l949, in Hebrew], Jerusalem: Achiasaf, l965.

Dimitroff, P. BORIS III Zar na Balgaria, [Boris III King of Bulgaria, in Bulgarian], Great Britain: Chemik, l986.

Gelber, N.M. "Jewish Life in Bulgaria," Jewish Social Studies, 8 (l946)

Greenberg, N. Dokumenti [Documents, in Bulgarian], Sofia: Central Consistory of the Jews of Bulgaria, 1945. 

Greenberg, N.  Hitleriskya Natisk Za Unishtuzhavane Na Evreyite ot Bulgaria [Hitler's Attempt to Destroy the Jews of Bulgaria, in Bulgarian], Tel Aviv: Greenberg, l96l.

Groueff, S.  Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943, Madison Books, Lanham and London, 1987.

Hoppe, H.J. Bulgarien - Hitlers eigenwilliger Verbuendeter, eine Fallstudie zur Nationalsozialistischen Suedosteuropapolitik, Vol. l5 [Bulgaria--Hitler's Willing Ally, A Case Study on National Socialism in Southeastern European Politics, in German], Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt--Studien zur Zeitgeschichte, l979.

Keshalis, C. Korot Yehudei Bulgaria [The History of the Bulgarian Jews, in Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Davar, 1969, 1969, 1971, 1972, and Tel Aviv: Maytav, l973.

Miller, M.L. Bulgaria During the Second World War, Palo Alto: Stanford University, l975.

Moskona, I. Pniney Sepharad, [Pearls of Spain, in Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Sifriyat Maariv, l98l.

Moskona, I.   Sipourey Sepharad, [Spanish Stories, in Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Sifriyat Maariv, l985.

Nissim G. L'uomo che fermò Hitler ["The Man who Stopped Hitler"], Mondadori, Milano, 1998.

Oliver, H. We Were Saved, Sofia: Sofia Press, l988.

Oren, N. Hazalat Yahadut Bulgaria menekudat Re'ut Chadasha, [The Rescue of the Bulgarian Jewry from a New Point of View, in Hebrew], Yad Vashem Studies 7 (l968): 77-99.

Piti, B. Te Spasitelite [They the Rescuers, in Bulgarian], Tel Aviv: Piti, l969.  

Piti, B.  Panorama N Bityat Na Evraistvoto v Bulgaria, [Panorama of the Customs of the Bulgarian Jews, in Bulgarian], Tel Aviv: Piti, l97l.  

Romano, A., et. al., ed. Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, "Bulgaria," Vol. l0., Jerusalem-Tel Aviv: The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora Co. Ltd., l967.

Rosanis, S. Divrey Yemey Hayehudim Be Togarma, Chelek Rishon [A History of the Jews in Turkey, Part I, in Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Dvir, l930.  

Rosanis, S.  Korot Hayehudim BeTurkya Vearzot Hakedem,  a continuation of the series started in Part I; five more parts. [A History of the Jews in Turkey and the Middle East, in Hebrew] Parts II-V, Sofia: Hamishpat, l934-l938; Part VI, Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Cook, l945.  

Shapira, J., ed. Aaron Ben-Yosef  [in Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Memorial Committee for Aaron Ben-Yosef, l954.  

Stavrianos, L.S. The Balkans since 1453, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.  

Tamir, V. Bulgaria and Her Jews - The History of a Dubious Symbiosis, New York: Yeshiva University, l979.

Varsano, A., et. al. Maccabi Bulgaria [The Maccabi Association of Bulgaria, in Hebrew], Tel Aviv: Committee to Commemorate Albert Kiyosso, l976.     

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