We are very pleased that after a too long break due to the covida-19 epidemic, we can once again invite you to the Synagogue Maribor for live events. On the first three Fridays in June, the Jazz ‘ma mlade festival will take place on Židovski trg, and we at the Synagogue Maribor have prepared three events for the […]

The work of museums of all types and sizes was severely affected in 2020 and the first half of 2021, therefore it has not been so important to remember them on this year’s International Museum Day. On Tuesday, 18th of May 2021, there will be an Open Doors Day for the International Museum Day at the Maribor Synagogue. The synagogue will

Today marks exactly 80 years since Adolf Hitler visited Maribor. Our city lives peacefully today and is developing with an eye to the future, but in order for the future to be the brightest, we must also remember the darkest moments so that they never happen again. That’s why we at the Synagogue Maribor took

On 26th of April Slovenia commemorates Slovenian victims of the Holocaust. On this day in 1944, the occupying forces gathered the Jews of Prekmurje in the synagogues in Murska Sobota and Lendava, and took them from there via Čakovec and Nagykanizsa to Auschwitz. Until then, the Jewish community in Prekmurje was the largest in Slovenia, but

We kindly invite you to join us on Tuesday, 20th of April, and Wednesday, 21se of April 2021, at the International Scientific Symposium “Judeo-Christian Sources and Dimensions of Dialogue”. The symposium will be organized in the online platform Zoom (upon registration you must register with your name and surname) or you will also be able to follow

At the exhibition in Synagogue Maribor, we present Roman Erich Petsche as an artist and a man with a capital letter. Roman Erich Petsche was born in 1907 in Kočevje in a family of Kočevje Germans. After the First World War, the family emigrated to Austria. Petsche was awarded the title of “magister artium” at

We invite you to join us on Tuesday, 13th of April 2021, at 17:00 for the online lecture Jews in Maribor during the novel Marpurgi. Boris Hajdinjak, director of Synagogue Maribor, will give a lecture. The Jewish community in Maribor was the largest medieval community in the territory of today’s Slovenia and the centre of Judaism not only in

The Terezín Initiative Institute (Institut Terezínské Initiativy) in Prague is organizing an online reading of the names of victims of Nazi persecution this year. The reading of the names coincides with the Jewish holiday of Yom HaShoah, when in Israel at 10:00 all life stops completely for 2 minutes in memory of Holocaust victims. On

We invite you to watch the online lecture The Life and Work of Bogdan Borčić. You can watch the lecture on the Slovenian academic painter and graphic artist on Thursday, April 1, 2021, at 18:00 on our YouTube, Facebook and website. Curator and art critic Mario Berdič Codella will give the lecture. Bogdan Borčić (1926, Ljubljana–2014, Slovenj Gradec) studied at the

Dear lovers of museums and galleries! An unusual year is behind us, which presented us with many challenges. Slovenian museums and galleries were forced to close their doors several times in the past year, but despite this, they successfully carried out their work as guardians of heritage and opened their digital doors to their visitors.