Margel Institute
The Margel Institute ( Croatian Margelov Institute) is a non-governmental institute of the Jewish minority in the Republic of Croatia . The director of the institute is Alen Budaj.
founding
The institute was founded on February 23, 2007 in the Croatian capital Zagreb . The name of the institute goes back to the Croatian rabbi Mojsije Margel .
Areas of responsibility
Since it was founded, the institute has set itself the task of counteracting all forms of anti-Semitism , racism and other forms of discrimination in relation to origin and religion within Croatian society. It is committed to mutually fruitful Croatian-Jewish coexistence. In addition, it presents the Jewish history and culture in the area of Croatia in various projects . Another area of responsibility of the institute is the preservation of Jewish cultural history, religious history in Croatia and remembering the Holocaust .
The Margel Institute in Zagreb works with the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem and the Jasenovac Research Institute in New York .
Web links
- Official website (Croatian, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. I. HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS ( Memento of the original dated June 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Constitution of the Republic of Croatia, accessed on the website of the Federal Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia on December 27, 2008.
