Pieces of Jewish gravestones unearthed during excavation work in Prague will be returned to the Czech capital's Old Jewish Cemetery. The agreement was reached between the city and its Jewish community ...

(JTA) — Dozens of paving stones cut from Jewish headstones were unearthed during redevelopment work in Prague’s tourist district. The discovery, confirming Jewish community suspicions that communist ...

Red tape is holding up plans for a memorial to mark one of Europe’s oldest Jewish burial sites. The 750-year-old site on Prague’s Vladislavova Street attracted international attention several years ...

The ancient Jewish cemetery in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia, will soon disappear, under the new city planning regulations adopted by the municipal government, states a despatch from Prague to the ...

Desecrated Jewish tombstones used in a pedestrian project in Prague have become a new memorial in honor of the Jewish cemeteries that were destroyed under the communist regime of the former ...

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC—BBC News reports that surviving members of Prague’s Jewish community and the city’s government have agreed that fragments of Jewish gravestones uncovered during future ...

Mark Podwal is obsessed with Prague. Not only has the New York-based artist and dermatologist visited the city 15 times, but he also has a Golem story by which he swears. In 1997, during a major ...

E. Randol Schoenberg at the grave of his ancestor, Abba Maria Chalfan (d. 1685 Prague). Photo by Daniel Polakovic For my presentation at the next Jewish genealogy conference scheduled for August 2020 ...

Tomas Jelinek looks at pavement made of tombstones in efforts to restore a former Jewish cemetery in Prostejov, Czech Republic. AP Pieces of Jewish gravestones unearthed during excavation work in ...

The names appear through leaves like the driftings of crocus. Occasionally, a stone hoists its prayer note higher than the winch of knots along a linden root, and a bole props the space between two ...