the old city of Prague , Starý Židovský Hřbitov It has been for over 300 years, since the 15th century, the only place where Prague Jews could bury th
the old city of Prague , Starý Židovský Hřbitov It has been for over 300 years, since the 15th century, the only place where Prague Jews could bury their dead. The current dimensions are roughly medieval and over time they overcame the lack of space overlapping the tombs because the cemetery could not expand out of the existing perimeter. During the German occupation, the cemetery was spared: in fact, the German authorities decided that it would remain a testimony to an extinct people. At some points there are over 9 layers of different burials; The tombstones were detached from the ground, the earth was gathered for a new burial, the old tombstone was reinstated, and the new one next to it. Not all of them remain a tombstone. The density of tombstones, late-gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, almost against the other, the silence of the place and the low lightness (the tombstones are almost all in the shade, obscured by the fringes of the tall ebony growing in the cemetery) create A unique effect with a ghostly aura. The tombs consist exclusively of a sandstone or marble (the most important ones) planted in the earth. No portrait, because Jewish religion prohibits it. Only symbolic designs to indicate the profession or the qualities of the deceased: tailor scissors, clamps for doctors, hands blessing for priests, and then many animals called Volpi, Bears, and so on Today, about 12,000 tombstones are counted, but more than 100,000 Jews are buried, the oldest one being Avigdor Kara of 1439, the last one being Moses Beck of 1787. The most visited tomb is that of Rabbi Löw, where visitors stop to pray and leave the traditional stone stones on the tomb, as well as coins and tickets expressing their wishes. In the cemetery wall there are fragments of Gothic gravestones from an even older cemetery discovered in the New Town, in Vladislavova street, in 1866. The Hall of Ceremonies, seen from the Jewish cemetery Between 1911 and 1912, the Ceremony Hall was built near
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