OLD JEWISH CEMETERY
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The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague (Czech Starý Židovský hřbitov), \u200b\u200bfounded in 1439, is one of the most significant historical monuments of the ancient Jewish quarter in Prague and one of the most famous Jewish cemeteries in Europe.
During the German occupation, the cemetery was saved, because the German authorities decided that he would remain a testimony of a people extinct.
has been for over 300 years, since the fifteenth century, the only place where Jews of Prague could bury their dead. The actual dimensions are about medieval times and the time is up for the lack of space by overlapping the graves, the cemetery because they could not expand outside the existing perimeter.
In some places they are stacked up to 9 layers of different tombs, the plaques were separated from the soil, the earth was heaped to a new burial, was called the old stone plus the new one alongside. Not everyone is a tombstone.
density plaques and late Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, one almost against each other, the silence of the place and poor lighting (all the tombstones are almost in the shadow, obscured by the foliage of the growing senior elders in the cemetery) are in effect unique spectral aura.
The graves consist solely of a slab of sandstone or marble (most important) planted in the ground. No picture, because the Jewish religion forbids it. Only symbolic drawings to indicate the profession or the qualities of the deceased.
Today there are around 12,000 tombstones, it is estimated that over 100,000 Jews are buried there, the oldest is that of Avigdor Kara in 1439, the last is that of Moses Beck in 1787.
The most visited grave is that of Rabbi Löw, where visitors stop to pray on the stone and leave the traditional stones, coins and banknotes as well as expressing their desires.
During the German occupation, the cemetery was saved, because the German authorities decided that he would remain a testimony of a people extinct.
has been for over 300 years, since the fifteenth century, the only place where Jews of Prague could bury their dead. The actual dimensions are about medieval times and the time is up for the lack of space by overlapping the graves, the cemetery because they could not expand outside the existing perimeter.
In some places they are stacked up to 9 layers of different tombs, the plaques were separated from the soil, the earth was heaped to a new burial, was called the old stone plus the new one alongside. Not everyone is a tombstone.
density plaques and late Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, one almost against each other, the silence of the place and poor lighting (all the tombstones are almost in the shadow, obscured by the foliage of the growing senior elders in the cemetery) are in effect unique spectral aura.
The graves consist solely of a slab of sandstone or marble (most important) planted in the ground. No picture, because the Jewish religion forbids it. Only symbolic drawings to indicate the profession or the qualities of the deceased.
Today there are around 12,000 tombstones, it is estimated that over 100,000 Jews are buried there, the oldest is that of Avigdor Kara in 1439, the last is that of Moses Beck in 1787.
The most visited grave is that of Rabbi Löw, where visitors stop to pray on the stone and leave the traditional stones, coins and banknotes as well as expressing their desires.
"Synagogue Pinkasova" . Adjacent to the Old Jewish Cemetery is now become Bohemian and Moravian Jewish monument to Holocaust victims. On the walls of the building are in fact written more than 80 thousand names of Moravian and Bohemian Jews exterminated by the Nazis. 
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