9:30 - 10:00 Registration

10:00 - 10:30 Greetings:

• Chair: Dr. Vladimir Levin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Prof. Michael Segal, Dean of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• H.E. Andreja Purkart Martinez, Ambassador of Slovenia in Israel
• H.E. Eyal Sela, Ambassador of Israel in Slovenia
• Prof. Barbara Murovec, University of Maribor
• Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

10:30 - 12:00 Jewish Heritage Research in Slovenia:

• Chair: Prof. Haim Shaked (University of Miami)
• Ruth Ellen Gruber (Jewish Heritage Europe) – Tracing a Trail: Notes from the 1996 Survey of Jewish Heritage in Slovenia.
• Ivan Čerešnješ (Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Past Research of Slovenia’s Jewish Heritage by the Center for Jewish Art.
• Vladimir Levin (Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – The Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art and the Project “Digitization of Jewish Heritage in Slovenia.”

12:00 - 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 - 14:00 Synagogues in Slovenia between Past and Future

• Chair: Prof. Ilia Rodov (Bar Ilan University)
• Janez Premk (University of Maribor) – Reconstructing the Maribor Synagogue: Between Facts and Reinterpretations.
• Rudolf Klein (Szent István University, Budapest) – The Medieval Synagogue in Maribor: Context, Architecture and Restoration.
• Barry L. Stiefel (College of Charleston) – Contextualizing Slovenia’s Synagogue Preservation in East-Central Europe: Considerations for Future Opportunities.

14:00 - 15:00 Lunch

15:00 - 16:30 Three Views on the Jewish Cemetery in Nova Gorica

• Chair: Janez Premk (University of Maribor)
• Michele Migliori (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) – A Bridge between the East and the West: The Jewish Cemetery in Rožna Dolina.
• Renato Podbersič (Study Centre for National Reconciliation, Ljubljana) – Jewish Cemetery in Rožna Dolina.
• Andrea Morpurgo (The Foundation for Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy, Rome) – The Restoration Project for the Cemetery of the Jewish Community of Gorizia in Valdirose (Rožna Dolina): Methodology and Strategies to Enhance Historical and Cultural Heritage.

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 - 18:30 Digital Humanities and Jewish Heritage

• Chair: Barbara Murovec (University of Maribor)
• Anna Neuhauser (Vienna University of Technology) – The Destroyed Synagogue of Murska Sobota: A Virtual Reconstruction.
• Vesna Krmelj (Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana) – From World War I to World Wide Web – Personal Letters in Digital Archives: On the Traces of the Slovenian-Jewish Friendship.
• Dejan Süč (University of Ljubljana) – Jewish Heritage in Lendava.

19 September, Thursday

10:00 - 11:30 World War II and Jewish Art

• Chair: Eva Janacova (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
• Daria Brasca (University of Udine) – Judaica in Italy during World War II between Theft, Protection and Loss.
• Iva Pasini Tržec (Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters, Zagreb) – Fate of Jewish Art Works in Zagreb during and after World War II.
• Barbara Murovec (University of Maribor) – Slovenian Art History of World War II between Data and Trauma Processing: New Research Perspective.

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00 Slovenian Jewish Heritage in Archives

• Chair: Sergey Kravtsov (Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• Anastasia Glazanova (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem) – Union Catalog for Balkan Institutions Holding Jewish Materials.
• Chaim Pekovic (Eventov Collection, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem) – Documents for the History of Slovene Jewry at the Eventov Collection.

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

15:00 - 17:00 Visit to the U. Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art