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Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov, the old Jewish quarter in Prague
There are more than 100,000 Jews buried in this small plot, the graves being layered 12 deep in some places. This is not unusual for European cemeteries where space is at a premium. In Germany where the graves are also 12 layers deep, the tombstones mark only the top layer of the buried coffins. In ...
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Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov in Prague has grave of Rabbi Judah Loew
In his book "The Golem," Elie Wiesel wrote that Rabbi Loew was called "the Maharal" which means "most venerated teacher and rabbi." Wiesel wrote that the Maharal and Emperor Rudolf II met on the Charles Bridge in 1583 and the king invited him to his court, which he had ...
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Old Jewish Cemetery
The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old-New Synagogue, it is one of the most important hictoric sites in Prague�s Jewish Town. The oldest tombstone, which marks the grave of the poet and scholar Avigdor Karo, dates from the year 1439. Burials...
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Old Jewish Cemetery (Stary zidovsky hrbitov) - Prague - Reviews of Old Jewish Cemetery (Stary zidovsky hrbitov) - TripAdvisor
This is a walled cemetery with thousands of tombstones. For a very long time this was he only place where the Jews of Prague could be buried, and the crowding resulted in the maze of...
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Old Jewish Cemetery (Stary zidovsky hrbitov) | Prague.net
It is now impressing to see tombs on 12 layers and to imagine that in the area are buried more than 100,000 people in about 12,000 graves. The last person buried in the cemetery was Moses Beck in 1787. The most striking graves are those of Mordechai Maisel and Rabi Löw (on his real name Jehuda ...
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Old Jewish Cemetery & Pinkas Synagogue, Prague - Reviews of Old Jewish Cemetery & Pinkas Synagogue - IgoUgo
(house of life) is Europe’s oldest surviving Jewish cemetery. The oldest known burial is the 1439 stone of Rabbi Avigdor Kara, the court poet of Wenceslas, who lived through the pogrom of 1389 to later eulogize about it. The 18th-century tomb of Rabbi Löw, who died in 1609, and his wife Perl, is ...
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Old Jewish Cemetery - Old Town Prague
Josefov was Prague's Jewish ghetto, and this cemetery was never intended to hold centuries' worth of Josefov residents - but, unfortunately, it does. Consequently, bodies are buried 12 deep in some areas of the cemetery. Understandably, this is the reason tombstones confusedly clutter the too-small ...
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