This merry day of culture represents a traditional annual cultural manifestation, with which we commemorate the birth of one of the most famous Slovenian poets – France Prešern. On December 3, cultural institutions invite visitors to free tours of plays, exhibitions and concerts, lectures, guided tours, workshops and various other cultural events. In the Center […]

Maribor artist Irena Zemljič Gajser is distinguish by her recognizable artistic style with which she researches predominately the inner structures of the both realistic and metaphysical micro cosmos. Correspondingly, the author remains faithful to her artistic expression even in her most recent cycle, in which she sets off on an intense artistic exploratory journey into

Within the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Days, which will be celebrated in Slovenia between 25 September and 3 October, will be the entry to the Maribor Synagogue and its current exhibition Synagogues of East-Central Europe 1782-1944 free of charge. The Maribor Synagogue is opened from Monday to Friday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. The

“The history of synagogues in Eastern Central Europe is not merely an academic issue. Nor is it a dry chapter in the general history of architecture, but a relatively vivid witness to the cultural interactions between Jews and many ethnic groups and non-Jewish religious communities in a particular area… Synagogues embodied hope and faith in

In the Middle Ages, in Maribor lived a both numerically and economically extremely strong Jewish community, influential even in the broader geographical area. The Maribor Jews dealt with trade and money-lending, their business and family contacts extended all the way to Prague, Dubrovnik, Venice and even Ancona. The main Jewish quarter was in the south-eastern

Within the framework of the European Days of Jewish Culture 2015, a short documentary film about the first Maribor female medical doctor, dr. Klara Kukovec will be screened. Klara was born as Chaya Lea Doktor in 1883 in Kherson, today’s Ukraine. Already in her early childhood, she felt the need to treat ill people but

The European Days of Jewish Culture is a pan-European project. Under its auspices, various Jewish institutions, synagogues, museums and other cultural institutions open their doors wide to the widest range of visitors and invite them to see and learn about the diversity of the Jewish cultural heritage on European soil. This year’s European Days of

“The whole truth, the fear and the misery, and what they have really done to us, I cannot tell you.” (Ceija Stojka, Am I dreaming that I live? Freed from Bergen-Belsen) On the eve of the 2 August 1944, the Nazis abolished the “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy camp”) in Auschwitz-Birkenau and in one single night killed several thousand

Before the Second World War, the largest Slovenian Jewish population lived in Prekmurje. In several Slovenian cities, tribute to Slovenian victims of the Holocaust is paid on 26 April, the anniversary of the beginning of massive deportations of Jews from Prekmurje. After the attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by axis powers in April, the

A permanent Jewish population in Slovakia can be traced as far back as the 11th century; after the decline of old medieval communities, Jew began to settle there in large numbers from the mid-17th century and especially in the 18th century. The communities formed during that period remained until the Holocaust. During the Second World