Jewish heritage in slovakia

About synagogues in Slovakia
Currently, there are hundred-five identified synagogues and prayer halls in country. Few synagogues were painstakingly restored and are used for cultural purposes, though most of them met different destiny. Some had been demolished during World War II, while many more were destroyed during Communist totalitarian regime within framework of megalomaniac urban projects or as a result of targeted cleansing off of last traces of former Jewish presence in many cities (e.g. Galanta, Bratislava, Michalovce, Humenné, Hlohovec, Nové Mesto nad Váhom).

About Museum of Jewish Culture
The Museum maintains its permanent exhibitions in four Slovak towns and in the future anticipates establishing other exhibitions in newly restored synagogue buildings across Slovakia. Aside from permanent exhibitions, the Museum has been organizing in partnership with Slovak regional museums special exhibitions to promote Jewish culture in places that were once centers of rich Jewish communal life. 
Rising awareness about rich Slovak Jewish legacy is one of our main goals. Though often overlooked, the Slovak Jews played an important role in the political, economical and cultural life of the society.
Therefore, the Jewish history has to be reintroduced into the general cultural context.

Slovak National Museum – Museum of Jewish Culture
Vajanského nábrežie 2,
P. O. Box 13
810 06 Bratislava 16
Phone: +421 2 5934 9142 
Fax: +421 2 5934 9145
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Slovak Jewish Heritage Center - non-governmental institution

Slovak Jewish Heritage Center is a non-governmental and non-profit institute, established in the spring 2006 as a joint-project of the Bratislava Jewish Community and the Jewish Heritage Foundation – Menorah, in Bratislava. The latter is our legal representative.  
The broad scope of our activities includes: research, documentation and site monitoring, education, promotion and consulting, which leads to the Jewish heritage preservation in Slovakia.

Brochure - Slovak Jewish Heritage Route

Chatam Sofer memorial

Chatam Sofer, with his own name Moshe Schreiber (1762-1839), was a renowned Orthodox rabbi and scholar. He was born in Frankfurt am Main, served as a rabbi in Prostejov and Mattersdorf in Burgenland.
The most important period of his rabbinate is related to Pressburg, today Bratislava.
Chatam Sofer Memorial is not a museum, it is a Jewish funerary shrine and place of religious worship.
Contact us and we'll arrange entrance with the Jewish Community in Bratislava.

Among the most beautiful & preserved synagogue of Slovakia belong:
Presov, Kosice, Bardejov

Reconstructed:
Bardejov - Chevra Bikur Cholim Synagogue

Kosice

City of Košice features valuable grouping of Jewish monuments. This eastern Slovak city used to be prior to Holocaust a center with several Jewish communities representing broad spectrum of Jewish religious streams. Communal buildings of former Hassidic, Orthodox, Neolog and Status Quo Ante congregations, some of them with original inventory, had been preserved until these days.


Presov

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