On a recent trip to Prague, I was
awed by many things top amongst them was the Pinkas synagogue with its moving
Holocaust memorial and its astonishing old “Jewish Quarter” cemetery. Amazingly
enough, Hitler left the synagogues and cemetery intact. The cemetery, originally
located in the Jewish ghetto, was the only permitted place for Jewish burial
from the late Middle Ages to 1787. There are untold numbers of tombstones
placed this way and that, leaning one atop of the other, over gentle rolling
mounds. Read more »
