The Crocus Project is a project aimed at young people from the age of eleven onwards to remember all the children who died in the Holocaust. In the year 2020-2021, The Crocus Projest in Slovenia is organized and financed by the Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor. On the interactive map you can find […]

Discover? Protect! Preserve. From 26 September to 10 October, Slovenian cultural, museum, and gallery institutions will celebrate the European Heritage Days. As part of these projects, which take place under the auspices of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia, visitors will be able to participate in numerous events and activities throughout

We invite you to a cycling tour “Melje in the first half of the 20th century: buildings and their stories”, where we will learn about the history of Melje. 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

We present to you the exhibition of the National Library of Israel, dedicated to the central theme of this year’s European Days of Jewish Culture. The exhibition was created in cooperation with the European Union for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Cultural Heritage (AEPJ), the text for which was prepared by dr. Elliot Jager

We kindly invite you to a lecture by Maja Kutin entitled Travels to the Holy Land in the past and life in it today. The lecture will take place on Thursday, 10th of September 2020, at 18:00 in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4. Even after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and after the Jewish people

Jews in Slovenia (1989, 41 min.) Screening of a documentary film. The screening will take place on Friday, 4. September 2020, at 19:00 in the Synagogue Maribor, Židovska ulica 4. After the movie there will be a conversation with director Maja Weiss and co-writer Alenka Hladnik. The discussion will be led by mag. Bojan Labović. Co-organised by Mitra, Society

The European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJC) is a pan-European project that, for the twenty-first year in a row, offers visitors an in-depth insight into individual aspects of Jewish culture and heritage. This year’s central theme is JEWISH JOURNEYS, and while it may seem contradictory, it may be more relevent than ever. Travel and migration are an important

The photographic exhibition Jewish Cemetery in Rožna Dolina, by photographer Andrej Perko, will be on display from 6. September 2020. The exhibition is also part of the Maribor Photography Festival 2020, organized by the Photo Club of Maribor. “At the Jewish cemetery in Rožna dolina near Gorica, which I visited for a few gloomy December days, I was especially aware of

Terra Sancta 1910: The Largest Slovene Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, photographs of Peter Naglič. The exhibition will be on display at the Maribor Synagogue from 6 September to 10 November 2020. “God-fearing Slovenes! A unique opportunity is presenting itself to you. The time is right, the prices are low, the journey is tempting,” wrote the

The Synagogue Maribor joins the Forward to the Past project. Slovenian museums and galleries moved their operations online during the COVID-19 epidemic and continued to successfully fulfill their mission, promote cultural heritage and maintain contact with their visitors and service users. Our job is to preserve the past by taking care of our common heritage,