Slovenian Jewish Heritage (https://cja.huji.ac.il/slovenia/browser.php?mode=main) Development of the a special Slovenian module of the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art and creation of the Slovenian Jewish Heritage Web portal in English, accessible to all. Web portal “Slovenian Jewish Heritage” presents the entire multifaceted Jewish heritage of Slovenia. It includes synagogues, cemeteries, tombstones and their fragments, cemetery chapels, Holocaust memorials, medieval Jewish quarters, ritual objects, and manuscripts preserved in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. The web portal “Slovenian Jewish Heritage” is a division of the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art; integration of documentation of Slovenian Jewish heritage in the Index enables its contextualization and placement within the broader context of European and global Jewish heritage.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
Member of the project group Polonca Vidmar edited the scientific monograph Artistic and historical Encounters with Jews in Slovenia, incorporated to the series Opera instituti artis historiae and published by Založba ZRC. The monograph brings state of the art on the research of history and art of Jews in Slovenia (O. Luthar, P. Vidmar) in the introduction as well as seven studies by historians and art historians. They were written by the members of the project team (A. Hozjan, A. Maver, P. Vidmar) and art historians (M. Oter Gorenčič, A. Iskra, R. Komić Marn, B. Vodopivec), who prepared the studies on iconographic peculiarities in the depiction of Jews in the Passion in Slovenj Gradec, the fate of Jewish art collections during the German occupation of Lower Styria, the fate of Jewish heritage on the case of Tržič landowner baron Karl Born and the restitution of objects of cultural heritage from Austria
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 41585667In the paper, presented at the international conference, the author discussed his research results relating to the timing and cause of the arrival of the Jews in individual smaller urban locations. He selected smaller cities where the Jewish presence is recorded in the documents as prime examples. He focused on the role of the sovereigns, especially the Habsburgs, which has proved to be crucial in encouraging and supporting the Jews in their decision to settle in a particular place. This is probably most evident in the different histories of the two border towns of Ormož and Brežice, both of which were owned by the Archbishop of Salzburg. The commitment of Styrian Dukes seems to be best in the case of the Slovenian Bistrica, where it is clear that their interest that has not only made the arrival of Jews in the town possible, but also largely regulated their activities. The case of Slovenj Gradec also points to a similar pattern. Here, too, the influence of the landed gentry is decisive for the arrival of the Jews in the city. From the overall picture, the example of Dravograd stands out most, where we are dealing with a rather unusual moment when the Jews from Styria (at least as the fact that they are subject to the judge for the Jews of Graz) settle down in one place. Especially the example of Dravograd shows how small the amount of data is, because neither the time of arrival and thus the longevity of the data is clear, nor the connection of Dravograd Jews with potential communities from Carinthia or Styria. Different approaches to the (non-)presence of Jews can be seen in the comparison of the Salzburg town of Brežic, where Jews are freely sought, and the Salzburg town of Ormož, where they were freely sought in the 14th century.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 60940291The paper, presented at the international conference, focused on Late medieval depictions of the Living Cross, which reflected aggressive anti-Jewish sentiments of those that commissioned them. In the territory of historical Styria we can trace the depictions of the Living Cross from the Mid-15th Century till the Beginning of the 17 century. The paper focus on the wall painting in the parish Church of St. George in Ptuj. The motif was painted in the last decades of the 15th century when Jews no longer lived in Ptuj. The fragmentarily preserved wall painting can be reconstructed based on comparison with other wall paintings in Styria and the fresco by Thomas Artula in the parish Church of St. Andrew in Thörl-Maglern, Carinthia. The paper aimed to present the Ptuj painting to the international audience, since it is almost unknown in the scholarly literature. It also aimed to analyze and interpret the wall painting in Styrian and Central European context. study investigates influences on selecting the iconographic motif and placing the painting in the central European milieu, and especially on possible connections to the expulsions of Jews in the fifteenth century. It examines the incorporation of the motif into church art and links to other painted iconographic motifs in the southern nave of the church in Ptuj and its extension.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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