Slovenian Female Inmates in Nazi Concentration Camps and stories of women from Prekmurje, a lecture by Boris Hajdinjak in Murska Sobota Regional and Study Library

Boris Hajdinjak will give a lecture about his exhibition about Slovenian female inmates in Nazi concentration camps, to which he will add the stories of women from Prekmurje. During World War II, around 21,000 camp inmates were deported from what is now Slovenian territory to the concentration camps of the Third Reich. It is estimated that around a quarter of them were women, most of whom were interned in the Nazi concentration camps in Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.

Online lecture by Karel Hrdlička on the topic: Viktor Fischl.

Le FARBAND, en partenariat avec ANIMA, vous propose une conférence avec projection de Laurent HERICHER :
Symbolique du décor et de la calligraphie ornementale dans les manuscrits bibliques hébraïques
Laurent Héricher est conservateur chargé des manuscrits hébreux, chef du service des manuscrits du Monde à la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Au Moyen-âge, les Juifs trouvèrent dans la copie des manuscrits de la Bible et dans leur décoration une forme d’art sacré. La mise en page du texte hébreu en constitue le principal élément de décor. Le texte doit être embelli par une calligraphie soignée et rigoureuse respectant les règles de mise en page. Le principe du hidour c’est-à-dire de l’embellissement est essentiel dans la pratique des commandements en général et s’applique également pour la copie du manuscrit.

The forum brings together representatives of the Jewish community, experts, and partners for dialogue on tradition, history, and contemporary issues. The program includes lectures, discussions, and creative sessions aimed at strengthening identity and fostering cultural exchange.

Among the topics featured:

– the role of the Jewish diaspora in the development of education, science, and culture in Moldova and beyond;
– lecture “Klezmer Music. From the Pale of Settlement to the World Stage”;
– lecture on kosher wine and Jewish gastronomic traditions;
– discussions on heritage preservation and intercultural dialogue.

The “Gesher” Forum will serve as a meaningful platform for sharing knowledge and experience, building new “bridges” between generations and cultures.

The Jewish Heritage of Szeged, a travelogue lecture by Tatjana Bogdan Sečnik

The first Jewish families immigrated to Szeged at the end of the 18th century, and soon after settling, the Jews built their first synagogue in the city. Despite occasional difficulties, the Jewish community in Szeged flourished in the following century and by the beginning of the 20th century had more than 6,000 members. In 1903, a new synagogue was built, designed by the famous Lipot Baumhorn, and is said to be the second largest synagogue in Hungary to this day. In the period between the two world wars, many Jews became enthusiastic about the Zionist idea and emigrated to Palestine during the British Mandate, but the community in Szeged was still quite large at the beginning of the Second World War.

A Brief History of the Jews in Goriška, presentation of the book guide with authors Lorenzo Drascek and Dr. Renato Podbersič
(also part of the official GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture program)

The presentation of the book guide, published as part of the Little Jerusalem project, is part of the official GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture program. There are two monuments of centuries-old Jewish presence in Nova Gorica and Gorizia: the synagogue in Gorizia and the Jewish cemetery in Rožna Dolina, which were separated into two countries by the border after World War II. The book guide A Brief History of the Jews in Goriška symbolically and conceptually connects two places of memory that testify to the religious and cultural diversity of the history of Goriška.

Spelling rules for translating Hebrew, a round table with Maja Kutin, Dr. Samo Skralovnik, Dr. Helena Dobrovoljc and Rok Kuntner. The discussion will be moderated by Marjetka Bedrač.

Slovenian spelling is a fundamental work that contains rules on the Slovenian script, as well as rules for borrowing from other languages. In line with the development of the language, spelling rules are constantly being systematically supplemented, which is ensured by the spelling commission operating at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and proposals for supplementing spelling rules are also the subject of public debate. Hebrew belongs to the group of languages that are written with non-Latin letters, so when borrowing from Hebrew we often encounter conundrums about how to write Hebrew words in Slovenian.

Renia Spiegel: Renia's Diary, a book presentation with translator Jana Unuk and Boris Hajdinjak. The discussion will be moderated by Bogumiła Płachtej.

Renia Spiegel was born into a Jewish family in Poland in 1924. In 1939, just before the German and Soviet invasions of Poland, she began writing a diary, in which she described everyday life during the occupation, school, problems with friends, first love, the unbearable pain of separation from her mother, and the longing for peace. She weaved the events together with her thoughtful, caustic, and surprisingly mature poetry. The last entry in the diary was made by Renia's boyfriend in July 1942, after she was killed by the Germans. Renia's diary is part of the Bellak family's family legacy, and was only publicly published a few years ago.

Citing and researching biblical, Jewish and early Christian written sources, presentation of a scientific monograph with editors Dr. Sam Skralovnik and Mag. Aljaž Krajnec. The presentation will be followed by a practical workshop.

The scientific monograph on citing and researching biblical, Jewish and early Christian written sources is the first scientific work in Slovenia that offers systematic and unified instructions for citing scientific sources and literature from the Judeo-Christian field. The monograph is the result of many years of work and experience of higher education teachers and researchers at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, and its authors tried to fill the gap in the field of standardized citing of the above-mentioned sources in the Slovenian language area. The monograph is based on and builds on the work of Robert Petkovšek Citing in the methodology of scientific work at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, with which the so-called The Chicago Manual of Style has been established as a standard for theological scientific research work in Slovenia, while also taking into account comparable scientific works published so far in Europe and the wider international space.