August 25th, 1992, marked the destruction of Sarajevo’s most famous landmark of the Austro-Hungarian era. The s. c. Vijećnica served as the National University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1947. On August 25th, the smoke from the grenades launched by the aggressor destroyed more than 90% of the library material, with over 2 million […]

The Kohnstein and Singer families, until recently forgotten names of the Holocaust victims, are returning to the public memory of the Maribor City. Their presence in the form of stumbling stones should symbolically end the silence and awake the beginning of permanent memory; when stumbling against their names (written on the stones) you shall remember

For quite some time, Ruža Klein Meštrović was known to the expert and lay public as the first wife of Ivan Meštrović, the famous Croatian sculptor. Her part in forming Meštrović’s artistic expression had been acknowledged, but it was only a few years back, when in 2009 the exhibition entitled “Ruža Klein Meštrović – The

The “European Day of Jewish Culture” (EDJC) is an all-European project traditionally taking place on the first Sunday in September in numerous European cities and towns; its main intent is to present Jewish history and cultural heritage in Europe. Although the international organizing committee establishes the subject matter of the project each year – this

The “Sarajevo Haggadah” is exceptional and rare medieval Haggadah, which is one of the finest books of its kind in the world, and world’s more significant pearls of Jewish culture. It is still slightly unclear as to how it ended up in Sarajevo. Amongst other things, it was in Venice for some time and it

The opening of the exhibition “Images of the Maribor Synagogue” shall conclude the international fine arts competition “Images of the Maribor Synagogue” that was conceived as part of celebrating the decennial of the cultural centre Maribor Synagogue. Presenting their artistic interpretation of the former medieval synagogue in Maribor shall be: Cvetka Hojnik, Gregor Pratneker, Irena

“Repatriation” is a programme of Maribor’s House of Literature in the frame of the project “Maribor 2012 – European Capital of Culture”. The aim of the “Repatriation” programme is to attract recognized cultural creators, who have left Maribor a long time ago, back to the city by the Drava River. The composer Janko Jezovšek –

The term modern Hebrew literature was first restricted to the period after the appearance of the Age of Enlightenment, then to the time after the origin of the Zionist movement, and later on after the Establishment of the State of Israel. Nowadays in Israel literature still originates in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, English, and Yiddish, if

In cooperation with the Kerameikon – Croatian Ceramic Association a special juried ceramics exhibition of Israeli artist was prepared as part of the “Ceramica Multiplex 2012”, the main manifestation of the “IV International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics 2012” (Varaždin, Croatia). In Israel the ceramics art scene is rather strong, and in tune with all world

The story of the most important Jewish community in Slovenia, which marked medieval life in the trade hub between Venice and Vienna, will be premiered in the Maribor Synagogue on Tuesday, 24 April 2012, at 7:30 p.m. We will repeat the screening of the feature-documentary film Marpurgi at 21:00. Welcome!