In Slovenia, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January, is commemorated with the Shoah – Let Us Rememberannual project. Within the framework of the project, which includes numerous cultural, museum, research and educational institutions, we prepare exhibitions, experts meetings and several cultural events. The Holocaust was one of the worst crimes against humanity. In it, about 6 […]

Call for Papers for a special issue of Unity and Dialogue and an International Scientific Conference Jewish-Christian Sources and Dimensions of Dialogue Unity and Dialogue,Journal for Ecumenical Theology and Interreligious Dialogue, will – in collaboration with Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor and with the support of the ARRS Programme Jewish-Christian Sources and Dimensions

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

Unit in Maribor, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, and Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor invite you to the opening of the exhibition From the desert to the table. The Biblical Archeological Collection of the Theological Library in Maribor is a unique collection in Slovenia. The collection mainly includes pottery and objects connected to everyday life and

Like every year on the birthday of the Slovenian poet France Prešeren, Synagogue Maribor is preparing “The Merry Day of Culture”, an event traditionally organised by Slovenian cultural institutions, under the wing of Ministry of Culture. On Tuesday, 3. 12. 2019, we invite you to Synagogue Maribor (Židovska ulica 4), where we prepared an interesting

From 23. 10. 2019 to January 2020 two exhibitions will be on display in the Maribor Synagogue: “History of Maribor Jews and their synagogue” and “Jewish diaspora”. Welcome! The Maribor Synagogue is one of the oldest still standing synagogues in Europe, built by an important and wealthy medieval Jewish community in Maribor. The exhibition takes

As part of The Festival of Photography Maribor 2019, we are hosting two photo exhibitions of Bojan Radovič and Faruk Ibrahimović at the Maribor Synagogue. They will be displayed from 17 to 30 September 2019. BOJAN RADOVIČ – HIBAKUJUMOKU Bojan Radovič was born in 1960 in Novo mesto, he is a recognized Slovenian photographer. He graduated

Gunter Demnig’s art project “The Stumbling Stones” (Stolpersteine) has been going on since 1994 on the principle of “one stone for one name”. The project awakens the until recently nameless and forgotten victims of Nazism. It is a standardized memorial in the form of a stone pavement coated with a layer of brass in which the

The European Days of Jewish Culture (EDJK) is a pan-European project that, for the twentieth year in a row, offers visitors an in-depth insight into individual aspects of Jewish culture and heritage. Organizers from all over Europe participate in the project every year, for example EDJC events last year were held in more than 400

75 years ago on 2nd of August, the Nazis destroyed the Roma part of the camp, also known as “Zigeunerlager” in Auschwitz-Birkenau and killed the local prisoners. Nearly 3000 Roma and Sinti were killed that night, mostly women, children and the elderly. Today, in memory of this event, 2nd of August is marked in many