Once again the Maribor Synagogue joins the all-Slovenian project “This Merry Day of Culture”. This project is traditionally organized on 3 December – the birthday of one of the greatest Slovenian poets France Prešeren. Visitors to Maribor Synagogue are cordially invited to visit us on Sunday, 3 December 2017, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. […]

Ciril Horjak has belonged among most recognizable authors of Slovenian caricature and comic strip art for several years. He is also well known as a long-standing co-worker of the Večer newspaper’s Saturday supplement with the title V soboto (On Saturday). At the retrospective exhibition, his portrait caricatures and title pages, which have adorned the Večer newspaper’s Saturday supplement for

Within the framework of the events marking the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, you are cordially invited to attend the lecture “The Greatest Jew after Christ.” Lev Trotsky and the Russian Revolution. The lecture will be presented by Boris Hajdinjak. Lev Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky, was born in 1879 in today Ukraine. His family

Several Maribor public institutions – the Maribor Public Library, Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, University of Maribor Library and Maribor Research Station of the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts – will mark the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution with various events. The programme will officially start on the anniversary day, ie. Tuesday, 7

Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Belarusian-French artist of Jewish roots, one of the most recognizable representatives of surrealism and pioneers of modernism. He drew inspiration for his works from Belarusian peasant life and biblical themes, while developing a special poetic-figurative painting style. Symbols are an important component of his art. Art critic and cultural worker

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. Each year, organisers in more than 30 Europeans countries join the EDJC project offering about 900 activities in different cities. The EDJC is this year devoted

On the eve of the 2 August 1944, the Nazis abolished the “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy camp”) in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in one single night killed several thousand Sinti and Roma in gas chambers. In memory of this tragic event is the 2nd of August in individual countries marked as the International Genocide of the Roma Remembrance Day.

In Maribor, in the late Middle Ages, there lived a relatively large and important Jewish community. The had to leave the city at the end of the 15th century and the Maribor Jews then settled down in various places all across the world. Some of them later took up the Marpurg(er)/Marburg(er) surname, literally meaning “from Maribor”,

On the International Museum Day – 18 May 2017, 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, visitors will have the opportunity to see the exhibition The Jews in the Gorizia Region. Free entrance will be possible between 8

On 26th of April 1944, the occupying authorities ordered an assembly of Prekmurje Jews, then the largest Jewish community on Slovenian soil, in the synagogues in Murska Sobota and Lendava. From there they were deported first to Čakovec and then to Nagykanizsa and finally to Auschwitz. In this camp, most Jews were killed immediately upon