STONES IN THE ANCIENT JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE

JEWISH View of the cemetery of the old Prague Jewish quarter. Founded in 1439, the crowding of the tombs is due to the fact that for over three hundred years it was the only place where the Jews of the city were able to bury their dead, without any possibility of expanding the perimeter; there are up to 9 layers of superimposed burials, with the tombstones placed side by side. Spared by the Nazis as a testimony of an extinct people, its late Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque tombstones instead tell the story of a people who survived despite the harassment exerted even on the dead. Some gravestones are honored with a blue thread. Photograph by Elena Piccini, Prague 2018

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