In der Ausstellung werden wiederkehrende Ereignisse von Migration und Vertreibung erkundet, die die Existenz der kleinen einstigen jüdischen Gemeinde Staudernheims prägten. Die historische Präsentation wird ergänzt durch die AR-Videoinstallation “Carry On“ der israelischen Künstlerin Sharon Paz, in der sich im virtuellen Raum der ehemaligen Staudernheimer Synagoge jüdische Auswanderer aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Flüchtlinge aus Nazi Deutschland, Emigranten und heutige Kriegsflüchtlinge begegnen. Ähnliche Erfahrungen von Migranten, Ambivalenzen menschlichen Handelns, diffuse Gefühlslagen….. all dem lässt sich hier nachspüren. Es entsteht ein dichtes, komplexes Bild vergangener und aktueller Wirklichkeiten.
Das Projekt war Teil des Festjahres 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland.

Los judíos sefardíes han mantenido vivo el recuerdo a lo largo de los siglos. Se llevaron consigo las llaves de sus casas con la esperanza de poder regresar.
Hoy son símbolo de memoria y vínculo entre todos ellos y con su tierra de origen, Sefarad.
La memoria es la facultad de conservación por excelencia. El acto que mejor define la memoria es el recuerdo.
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Fechas: del 1 al 30 de septiembre
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Lugares: Centro de Visitantes y Castillo de Lorca

Opening of the exhibition "Jewish Minsk Before Me" by graphic artist Bogdan Dovgyalo. The paintings feature Jewish buildings and wooden synagogues that formerly existed in Minsk, but have not survived to this day. In his Jewish paintings, the artist draws slightly distorted representations of the Jewish life as a part of Belarusian life. Some of the works are dedicated to the Minsk Ghetto, which will be displayed on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of its liquidation.
The paintings will be exhibited in the main synagogue of Belarus and timed to the opening of the Minsk Jewish Heritage Centre.

Branimir Ritonja has been one of the most prominent masters of contemporary Slovenian photography for many years. His prolific opus consists of works with a variety of motifs, which he supplemented a few years ago with a series of photographs of Jewish cemeteries in a vast area from Venice and Trieste through Rožna Dolina near Nova Gorica, Dolga vas near Lendava and Varaždin all the way to Bratislava, Brno, Mikulov, Prague and Krakow. With these photographs, the photographer devoted himself for the first time in his long artistic photography career to the documentary research of the culture of Jewish cemeteries. The exhibition was premiered in 2017 at the Maribor Synagogue Jewish Cultural Heritage Center, and since then it has been shown at several other locations.

In 2021, the Murska Sobota Provincial and Study Library implemented a cataloging project of 99 units of Jewish prayer books and ritual books that were owned by Jewish families living in the Prekmurje area until the beginning of the Second World War or until their deportation to concentration camps. The final result of the cataloging was the establishment of the Jewish Collection. The exhibition presents a selection of prayer books and ritual books according to different content sections. Through the books, which are silent witnesses of the heritage of Jewish life in the Pomur region, the activities and fate of their owners and the local Jewish community are also presented. The authors of the traveling exhibition are Maja Kutin, a project collaborator, an expert on Hebrew and Judaism, and Boris Hajdinjak, director of Center of Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor.

Memory has several dimensions and includes both internal, personal memories of what we ourselves experienced and experienced, as well as external, collective recollection of what is no longer there. A memory is to some extent timeless, as it is passed down from generation to generation and is preserved in written form long after the lives of those in whose minds it was formed. At the same time, it is also firmly anchored in time, described and defined by the moment in which it was created. Libraries are storehouses of memory, which is present in memorial and archival materials, books and records of countless lives, knowledge and thoughts. The National Library of Israel, with its archival collection and more than five million books, is the central institution of national memory.

Lana Soklič's photography exhibition and the Synagogue Maribor's open doors day at the opening of the Maribor Photography Festival 2023.

Lana Soklič is a young artist who is presenting herself at this year's Maribor Photography Festival with the series Alienated Domesticity, in which she explores the concept of "crop". As part of her research, she visited the Bellevue Hotel. With the help of double exposition, its space was changed so that its atmosphere changed from familiar to alienated, eerie and dark. In the foreground is the relationship between light and shadow, where the opposing axes, alienation and domesticity, are presented, combined into a coherent whole. The Lana Soklič exhibition will be on view in Synagogue Maribor until September 30, 2023.

Picturesque views of the streets and squares of medieval Maribor were popular motifs of Maribor artists in the first half of the 20th century. Among the artistic views of old Maribor, the views of the preserved part of the mighty south-eastern city walls with the former Jewish quarter, the synagogue and the defence tower seem especially dramatic. In the selection of ten works of art from the collection of the Maribor Art Gallery, we follow the time from 1919 to 1959, which historically represents a tumultuous period of diverse political arrangements and state affiliation, but the image of the Jewish quarter remained unchanged and is still one of the most pleasant parts of Maribor old town. The curator of the exhibition, which will be on display in the Synagogue Maribor until 19th of January 2024, is Simona Vidmar Čelik.

Židovska ulica with its associated square marks a culturally and historically important part of Maribor, which in today’s urban design at the same time reveals itself as an extremely attractive, urbanistically completed corner of the city. Galleries and other cultural institutions operating on this street wanted to, on the one hand, promote the recognition of their cultural and artistic production, and on the other hand, the recognition of Židovska ulica or Židovski trg as “the most beautiful balcony in the city” and at the same time one of the most important historical spaces Jewish heritage in Slovenia, connected to the Židovska Cultural Quarter. Five partner organizations – Center for Jewish Cultural Heritage Synagogue Maribor, Youth Cultural Center Maribor with Gallery Media Nox, Photo Club Maribor with Photo Gallery Stolp, Association of Fine Artists Maribor with Gallery DLUM and GT22 & Fundacija Sonda – within the framework of the aforementioned initiative, are striving to revive the pulse of the former Jewish quarter and thus directly or indirectly rekindle the memory of its former inhabitants, and at the same time, with a variety of non-Jewish contents, to encourage awareness among its visitors that just about every visitor to the Židovska Cultural Quarter – regardless of age, expectations and taste – can find a program here , which will attract him and provide him with a quality cultural and artistic experience.