The exhibition on Jewish languages will be on display at the Synagogue Maribor until 9 January 2026.

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 a completely different language. In the centuries around the beginning of our era, Jews spoke Judeo-Aramaic instead of Hebrew, and a few centuries later, Judeo-Greek. When they emigrated from Israel and then created new communities in other lands, they continued to learn the local languages, speaking and writing them in their own special, Jewish way. Over the next few centuries, quite a few languages emerged in Europe and the Middle East. With the exhibition Jewish Languages, prepared in 2016 by the National Library of Israel, we offer you a small insight into the vast world of Jewish languages.

The exhibition has been opened as a part of the EDJC 2025 in Slovenia.