Bulgaria
The first time I visited Bulgaria was in December, 1985 and I spent a dozen years visiting the Jewish community. Before the revolution in 1989, there was almost no organized Jewish life to speak of, and what there was, was run by Communist apparatchiks. All that changed radically when the Communist government was thrown out.
Snow had been falling over Bulgaria for days in November 1988, clogging streets, closing airports and slowing trains to a crawl...
