Synagogues

The history of the Jews of the region go back before the 10th century. The permanent settling of Jews started in the 1,000's. Ironically, the Synagogues in Prague were not destroyed because Hitler expected to make them into museums of an extinct race. .

There are three working synagogues in Prague and the rest are all museums. This quarter is also a main tourist attraction. Included in the entrance price is the Prague Jewish cemetery where there 100,000 people buried. I saw dates from the 1,600's but they probably go back even further.

One Synagogue has all the names of the dead from the camps and the walls are full. The most beautiful is the Spanish Synagogue which was built in the beginning of the twentieth century. Pictures are not allowed but I did sneak one or two.

The cemetery museum site had anonymous paintings of the secession from illness to death and then the carrying the body to the burial site and the casket making, at the burial, the grief, the families etc. Also were the uniforms of the burial society and a description of the burial society.