Tag #125456 - Interview #78561 (Sofi Eshua Danon-Moshe)

My father told me that his kin had come from Odrin [Edirne, Turkey]. His predecessors went there after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain [1]. They moved through Northern Africa and Southern Europe and settled down temporarily in the Ottoman Empire. There were big Jewish communities around Salonika [Greece] and Istanbul [Turkey]. My kin moved from Istanbul to Odrin and from there separated and settled down in different places: most of them in the towns of Gorna Dzhumaya and Pazardzhik, which was a major market center at the time.