This Merry Day of Culture represents traditional cultural manifestation, with which the birthday of one of the greatest Slovenian poets – France Prešeren – is celebrated. On 3 December each year, many cultural institutions in Slovenia open their doors and invite the visitors to attend different cultural events, e. g. performances, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, guided […]

There was widespread rumour about Gorizia being Jerusalem on the Isonzo (Ital. Gerusalemme sull’Isonzo), while the Jews were probably present in Gorizia as early as the emergence of the town. Jews have played an important role in the city’s and region’s past, as it is obvious also from the naming of some streets after them. However,

Within the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Days, which are this year dedicated to the topic “The heritage around us,” we cordially invite visitors to visit the exhibitions in Maribor Synagogue: the documentary exhibition Jewish Languages and the photographic exhibition Almost invisible: Jewish ghetto walls by Gregor Radonjič. The entry to the Maribor Synagogue is from 1 October

The photographic exhibition by Gregor Radonjič presents a motif view which has not previously been presented in this way within contemporary Slovenian photography. With his innovative approach to photographic research, instinctive shots and selected perspectives, the author has filled the present photographic images with a sensitive perception of isolation, abandonedness, transitoriness and disguisedness of the

Wherever Jews have lived, they have spoken and/or written differently from their neighbors. In some cases, their languages have differed by a few embedded Hebrew words; in others, they speak a completely different language. In the centuries surrounding the turn of the Common Era, Jews transitioned from Hebrew to Judeo-Aramaic and a few centuries later

The European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC) is an all-European project that provides the visitors to its events a comprehensive insight into individual aspects of Jewish culture and heritage. In the scope of the project, a variety of programmes, such as open doors days, guided tours, exhibitions, lectures, concerts, etc., enable visitors to discover the

The 2nd of August has been imprinted in Roma and world history as one of the most fateful dates. On the eve of 2 August 1944, the Nazis abolished the “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy camp”) in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in one single night killed about 2,900 Sinti and Roma. At this year International Porrajmos Remembrance Day we are kindly

The museum-documentary visiting exhibition of the Split City Museum presents the life and work of Vid Morpurg, one of the most prominent personalities of Split in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. On 18 March 1496, Emperor Maximilian I issued a decree expelling Jews from Styria, Vienna’s New

On the International Museum Day – 18 May 2016, we are cordially inviting you in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4, to the Open doors day. In the scope of the open doors day between 8 a. m. and 4 p. m., visitors will have the opportunity to see the exhibition Stone Tears. Remembrance and learning about the

The Holocaust is one of the worst crimes against humanity. It does not represent simply an attempt to destroy the whole Jewish, as well Roma nations but is a synonym for total dehumanization, for an industrialized process of planned murder either by gassing or shooting, either by starvation or exhaustion from labour, to death. With