In the six years that it has been observed, the European Day of Jewish Culture and Heritage has become a unique European day-long festival which this year is being marked in more than 30 countries, it was said.
The festival is an opportunity to present the wealth of the Jewish heritage which has been preserved in Europe despite the horrors of the Holocaust and to remind people of the Jewish contribution to European culture, said Ognjen Kraus, the president of the Zagreb Jewish Municipality.
He said a split had occurred in the Municipality in which religious and world-view arguments were used in an attempt to unlawfully take over the Municipality's leadership. He added that because politics interfered in the crisis, some of the activities of Zagreb's Jewish Municipality were blocked.
Those who saw the exhibition also had an opportunity to enjoy the cooking show of Rabbi Zvi Eliezer Alonie.