They are known as “Gypsies” and call themselves Roma or Sinti. According to the agreement of the First World Romani Congress in London 1971, we use the term Roma for all of them. The origin of Roma has been a mystery for a long time whereat Romani has proven to be a key to understanding […]

Slovenia celebrates the European Day of Jewish Culture for the 8th successive year and, as in the past, several events will be held at different venues in Maribor, Ljubljana, Ptuj, Murska Sobota, and Lendava, as well as in Negova where the EDJC will be celebrated for the first time. Although this year’s EDJC will be

Michel D’Anastasio is one of the more eminent Hebrew calligraphers in the world; nonetheless his work is still quite unknown in Central Europe. The artist’s calligraphic beginnings date back to year 1989 and since then he is passionately searching for different artistic expressions that are offered by beautifully written letters. D’Anastasio’s fascination with Hebrew alphabet

Jewish historical experience with literacy should be a valuable lesson about importance of education, especially in uncertain times. Even to this day Jews invest more in education then the rest of the world, as well as they are engaged in more demanding work. As a result, the number of Nobel prizes per capita is the

One of the most important themes and issues of scientific research is a problem of systematically suppressed social and collective memory of the Holocaust and Jews in Slovenia after WWII. Synagogue Maribor is deliberately encouraging scientific research of these topics in order to prevent public, political and scientific silence about the Holocaust and its consequences

Ten years have passed since a series of Jakov Bararon’s paintings “Or Hadash – New Light” were exhibited in the Maribor Synagogue. This renowned artist will be making a return visit to Maribor and Slovenian audience to present his most recent cycle of paintings called Vista (or View) in which the painter remains faithful to

That night, burning candles in the homes of Karst villages were silently expresing deep sorrow of hummiliated man of the Primorska Region. In decades that were yet to come, those “sad lights” were lighted again and again… The book, published by publishing house Mladika, Trieste, marks the 80th anniversary of the shooting of Bazovica heroes.

Jewish cemetery i.e. “židovski cintor” (expression in dialect of the Prekmurje region), as we have named our literary-musical evening, is a selection of several worldwide Jewish anthologies. The first one, entitled “Jewish Anthology in Polish”, was published in 1980 in London and includes poetry of Polish Jews from 1868–1968. Selection and data for the anthology was

»Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the

Each year on the 8th of February, in honour of the Slovene national poet France Prešeren, we celebrate the Prešeren Day, with which we commemorate the poet’s life and work. On this occasion Slovene museums, galleries and other cultural institutions open their doors to public with a desire for a wider public to get a