Jewish cemetery

In the Ziskov district, from 1680 onwards, dead Jews were initially buried during a plague epidemic. Then from 1787 all burials of Prague Jews took place here. The cemetery was used until 1890. In 1990 a television tower was built on a part of the overgrown cemetery. Today the cemetery has been restored and is open to the public.

What is striking about these stones is that the inscription does not follow the usual procedure in Germany, i.e. the po nigba or po tema as the uppermost sign, then a largely fixed text with name, date, etc., but is largely freely designed.

Often the uppermost text is a prosaic description of the dead person, followed by Torah texts.

A fixed order of the texts is not discernible.