MAKE THIS COUNTRY GERMAN AGAIN! 80 YEARS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN MARIBOR Professional guidance and lecture with Boris Hajdinjak as part of the 4th Festival of Walks On 26th of April 1941, just under three weeks after the beginning of the Second World War in the former Yugoslavia, Adolf Hitler visited Maribor. Hitler’s […]

MELJE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: BUILDINGS, PERSONS AND THEIR STORIES Bicycle guided tour with Boris Hajdinjak as part of the 4th Festival of Walks For most of today’s Maribor citizens, let alone for potential visitors, Melje is a part of Maribor that is not in any itinerary. Yet this part of the

As part of the open doors day, we invite visitors to a free tour of the former Jewish synagogue and current exhibitions in it. In the main room of the synagogue there is a documentary exhibition “Dialogue”, prepared by Olga Lempert and Zack Rothbart from the National Library of Israel. Dialogue has an extremely important place

On Tuesday, 21st of September 2021, at 6 pm, we kindly invite you to Synagogue Maribor (Židovska ulica 4 in Maribor) for the presentation of the book The Word I Don’t Have and a conversation with the author Nataša Konc Lorenzutti. The author will be interviewed by Neža Vilhelm. This year, the Miš publishing house published the novel “The Word I Don’t Have”

“A pathetic symphony in cyclonic B minor. Everything in it is made up except death.” (introductory thought in the novel Silence for the Eyes) Slovenian writer, journalist, publicist and screenwriter Branko Šömen wrote the novel Silence for the Eyes at the suggestion of his now deceased friend, Hollywood producer and two-time Oscar winner Branko Lustig, who survived

Dialogue is one of the oldest and most basic ways of democratic conversation and is at the same time a path that not only leads to a peaceful and constructive life in a multicultural world, but also encourages the development of a sense of community and belonging. Dialogue also occupies a very important place in

The European Days of Jewish Culture will be held this year 2021 in a unique edition around the theme of “Dialogue” This year’s European Days of Jewish Culture festival will be held in 36 European countries building on Jewish experiences of pluralism, engaging in dialogue with others on their experiences, and collaborating towards the lived

For many years now, the international public has been commemorating the 2nd of August as the Remembrance Day for Roma victims of the genocide committed by the Nazi regime. It has been estimated that between 250 000 and one million, maybe even up to million and a half, members of the European Romani communities lost their

A ceremony on the occasion of the Day of Slovene-Israeli Friendship and the 100th bnniversary of the birth of the Israeli national heroine and poet Hannah Szenes. The Day of Slovenian-Israeli Friendship will be celebrated for the first time, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hannah Szenes, an Israeli national heroine and poet.

We invite you to a SUMMER EVENING AT ŽIDOVSKA! On 19th of June 2021 we invite you to join us from 18:00 onwards at the Summer Evening at Židovska. At 19:30 on the Jewish Square, there will be a concert of the Kontra-Kvartet, a Slovenian ethno group that performs traditional Jewish music – klezmer music in its most authentic form. Due to