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New Jewish Cemetery. The New Jewish Cemetery ( Czech: Nový židovský hřbitov) in Žižkov, Prague, Czech Republic, was established in 1890 to relieve the space problem at the Old Jewish cemetery in Žižkov, where the Žižkov Television Tower now stands. It is about 10 times bigger than the Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov and provides space ...
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague
The Old Jewish Cemetery ( Czech: Starý židovský hřbitov) is...
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New Jewish Cemetery may refer to: New Jewish Cemetery,...
- Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague
New Jewish Cemetery (Nový židovský hřbitov) This cemetery, with countless artistically valuable tombstones, was founded in 1890. Of greatest interest is the 1985 Memorial of Czechoslovak Jews who perished in the Shoah and the Resistance.
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One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Europe, the Old Jewish Cemetery was in operation from at least 1439 and was closed in 1787. The Cemetery is located in the Jewish Quarter on a small plot of land between the Pinkas Synagogue and the Klausen Synagogue. During the four hundred plus years that the Cemetery was active, about 200,000 Jewish ...
Perhaps to stem the worsening conditions, King Přemysl Otakar II issued new Jewish privileges (Statuta Judaeorum) in 1254 and 1262, prohibiting violence against Jews, protecting their festivals, and preventing damage to cemeteries and synagogues. Jews were granted religious freedom and were allowed to set up their own administration.
When the old cemetery in Josefov ceased to meet the needs of Prague’s Jewish Community in terms of size it was decided in 1890 to build a new, larger cemetery that would suffice for at least 100 years. This gave rise to a burial site measuring over 10 hectares and projected to hold approximately 100,000 graves.
