The event is dedicated to the memory of the Jewish community in Senec. It is a combination of lecture presenting family histories, oral history interviews and walk around the town connected to the authentic places of family stories – the former dwellings. Learn about the daily life of the community before, during and after the Holocaust. The team of three experts has dedicated years of research of the local Jewish history and are the authors of the prepared permanent exhibition in the restored synagogue in Senec. The event takes place two days after the national Holocaust memorial day (September 8), when the names of Jewish families will be publicly read during the ceremony on the town square in front of the synagogue.

Mihael Toš, author of the Kein Kampf project, will present and describe the remains of the Jewish cultural heritage in Slovenia on an interactive map. Events will take place on 4 and 18 September 2023 in Hotel Mitra.

To what extent are people of today's generation united by a violent past and the memory of that past? What forms of subjectivity emerge through different memories of atrocities and what forms of collective action facilitate or hinder these memories?

Conference in Catalan.
Free entrance until full capacity.

Na predavanju bo predstavljena družinska zgodba znane murskosoboške tiskarske družine Hahn vse od naselitve v Prekmurju do holokavsta. Predavatelja bosta zgodovinar Dejan Süč in domoznanec Pokrajinske in študijske knjižnice Murska Sobota dr. Albert Halász.

Renowned Slovenian literary and film maker and photographer Dušan Šarotar is the author of numerous books of prose, poetry and essays, as well as more than twenty scripts for documentaries and short feature films. The central theme of his novels, poetry and films is the fate of the Jewish community and the Holocaust in Murska Sobota and more widely in Prekmurje. On April 26, 1944, the Nazis and Hungarian fascists deported almost the entire Jewish community from Prekmurje to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Among the handful who survived the war was Šarotar's grandfather Franc Schwartz, "who never spoke about it". His story is also the common thread of Šarotar's novels Billiards in Dobray and Zvezdna karta, and at the forefront of the writer's interest are also memory, sadness, feeling and the human soul.

In the lecture, Maja Kutin, a leading collaborator in the project of cataloging the book heritage of the pre-war Slovenian community in Prekmurje, will present the stories behind the selected treasures of prayer books and ritual books. Members of the local Jewish community used the Hebrew Bible and the Torah with references from the former rabbis of Murska Sobota to swear an oath before the Murska Sobota court, and the signatures in mourning prayer books for the dead reveal the stories of families that influenced the economic and social development of Prekmurje. The valuable collection is kept in the Provincial and Study Library of Murska Sobota.

(Due to the limited number of places, prior registration with name and surname is mandatory by September 18, 2023 at office@judovskozdruzenje.si.)

The Ljubljana Synagogue opened on November 9, 2021, the ceremonial introduction of the Torah scroll was attended by a delegation of the Conference of European Rabbis, and this time the doors of the synagogue are being opened to the general public for the first time. The presentation of the space will be followed by a lecture by the chief rabbi for Slovenia, Ariel Haddad, entitled The Spiritual Value of Memory in the Torah. Collective and individual, historical and narrative – memory is the foundation upon which Judaism is forged. The root ZHR in Hebrew means "memory" and "remembering", as well as "manhood"… How does memory fertilize Judaism and root it in the fertile soil of four thousand years of history? The lecture will be in English, translation will not be provided.

Day of Jewish Culture / Jiddis Kulturális Fesztivál A Bisale Mazl or Piece of Happiness / Egy kis mázli, which will start at 12 noon in Šalovci, will continue with a rich cultural program in the afternoon in Domanjševci. The introduction to the afternoon's events will be marked by speeches by the Mayor of the Municipality of Šalovci, Iztok Fartek, and the President of the Pomeranian Hungarian National Community, Dušan Orbán, as well as a dance performance by children from the Domanjševci Kindergarten. This will be followed by a round table on Jewish life in Prekmurje with renowned researchers and connoisseurs of the history and fate of Prekmurje Jews: Marko Krenn, Dušan Šarotarje and Boris Hajdinjak. In 2015, independent researcher Mark Krenn crowned his long-term study of the Jewish community in Prekmurje with the monograph Julij Gyula Schönauer, Šalovo photographer, and on the occasion of the Day of Jewish Culture, he will prepare a special photo exhibition, which will show images from the life of Jewish families in Šalovci and the surrounding area, and which will be open to the public that day.

In the second issue of the year 77 (2022) – and in the upcoming first issue of the year 78 (2023) – the magazine Edinost in dialog touched on the issue of the influence of religion on politics and public life. In the thematic issue, authors from different countries presented examples of the coexistence of politics and religion in some countries of the world and offered an insight into the importance and diversity of the issue of the relationship between religion and politics in the modern world. Due to the exceptional relevance of the topic, selected contributions that have been or will be published in the magazine Edinost in dialog will also be presented at the international symposium. Special emphasis will be placed on the influence of religion on politics and public life in the Middle East.