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The Old Jewish Cemetery - was founded in the first half of the
15th century and served as the burial place until 1787. To the most visited
places belong also the tomb of the Rabi Jehuda Low (1609), next to it the
narrow tomb of his grandson. The legend says that this men wanted to
be bu ried close to his grandfather, but there was no more place around.
But when the grandson died, the tomb moved to the side and there appeared
a place for another grave.
Further you can see there the graves
of the astronomer and mathematician David Gans, doctor and astronomer
Josef Šelom Delmedig, financier and the great patron of the
Jewish Town, Mordechaj Maisel and the rabbi and the collector of Hebrew
prints David Oppenheim. At many tombs are laid the small stones,
often with the ticket with a wish. The people believe that the dead people
can help and fulfil the wishes,
if the stone is brought from the
place where you live. To take the
stone at the cemetery or even
from another tomb is prohibited.
This practice comes from the ancient
times, when the Jews were
the nomads and their dead they
covered with stones to protect it
from the wild animals.
The legendary rabbi Jehuda
Low ben Bezalel who, according
to the legend, created
the dangerous clay Golem
and with use of the mysterious
Schem he gived
him the life was born
in the second or third
decade of the 16 century
in Poznaň. For
twenty sears he was the provincial rabbi and the supervisor
above the Jewish schools in Moravia. At that time he lived in
Mikulov and as an elder man he moved to Prague, where he
early became the leading Jewish personality. He wrote here
many religious and pedagogical works and founded in the
New Town the High School of Talmud. He belonged to the
friends of the emperor of Rudolf II.
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Oct.-Mar. 9 am - 4.30 pm
Apr.-Sept. 9 am - 6 pm
Daily except Saturdays and Jewish holidays
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