In December, when many towns and villages across Slovenia are filled with festive spirit and children eagerly await visits from St. Nicholas, Santa Claus, and Grandfather Frost, Jewish communities celebrate the joyous holiday of Hanukkah. One of the characteristics of this holiday is playing with a spinning top, called dreidel. As part of ‘Festive Maribor […]

On the occassion of celebrating ‘The Merry Day of Culture 2025’, we kindly invite you to visit the Synagogue Maribor and see an exhibition on Jewish languages. Jews everywhere, wherever they live, speak and write differently from their neighbours. Sometimes their language is different because of a few additional Hebrew words, other times they speak

At the Synagogue Maribor, we have begun preparations to commemorate 27 January 2026. As every year, the program of the events marking the upcoming International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be promoted unted the umbrella of ‘Shoah – Let Us Remember’ project. We kindly invite all who would like to collaborate in this Slovenian project, to

The Franc Ksaver Meško Library in Ormož, in cooperation with the Synagogue Maribor, cordially invites you to a lecture by Boris Hajdinjak entitled “The Inhabitants of Medieval Ormož”. In 1331, Herdegen I of Ptuj and his (half)brother Frederick VII granted town privileges to the inhabitants of Ormož. The granting of town privileges was prompted by

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Prekmurje, the only part of Slovenian territory liberated by the Red Army, a commemorative event entitled Krvava Mura: Rdeča armada v Prekmurju (Bloody Mura: The Red Army in Prekmurje) will be held in the Duša Škof Hall in Murska Sobota Castle. The event will take place on

For the fourth consecutive year, Maribor’s cultural institutions are participating in the diverse events celebrating the City of Maribor’s main holiday, which is observed annually on 20 October. On this day in 1164, the name of the castle in the border region, i.e. so-called Marchburch was recorded for the first time, which also gave its

For the fourth consecutive year, Maribor’s cultural institutions are participating in the diverse events celebrating the City of Maribor’s main holiday, which is observed annually on 20 October. On this day in 1164, the name of the castle in the border region, i.e. so-called Marchburch was recorded for the first time, which also gave its

Beletrina Publishing House and the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia are organising a symposium marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The symposium will host renowned experts from different fields of expertise who will shed a light on totalitarian violence and resistance in Slovenia during Second World War. Boris

On Friday, 17 October 2025, at 11 am, the National Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia in Ljubljana will host a presentation of the collection of papers Slovenian Prisoners in the Nazi Concentration Camp System. The collection contributes to the understanding of the Nazi camp system by presenting both well-known and lesser-known topics and testimonies.

You are cordially invited to a walk through the history of Račji Dvor mansion with a well-known Maribor historian and director of the Synagogue Maribor, Mr. Boris Hajdinjak. Within this guided tour, you will have the opportunity to learn more about the exciting history of the mansion that stands below Kalvarija hill at the western