# Prague <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Praha (Czech); Prag (German)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Prague, Czech Republic</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>50°05′N 14°25′E</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Prague, capital of the Czech Republic (historically Bohemia), was one of the oldest and most important centers of Jewish life in Central Europe. Its **Jewish Quarter, Josefov**, preserves the medieval Old-New Synagogue (Altneuschul, ~1270, the oldest active synagogue in Europe), the Old Jewish Cemetery, and the Jewish Town Hall. Prague was the seat of towering rabbinic figures such as the Maharal (Rabbi Judah Loew, associated with the Golem legend). The community was largely destroyed in the Holocaust — the Nazis deported most of Bohemian and Moravian Jewry (many via Theresienstadt) — though the synagogues and cemetery survive as the Jewish Museum in Prague. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — History of the Jews in Prague; Jewish Museum in Prague; YIVO Encyclopedia — Prague.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Yitzchak Chajes (b.1538)]] | Born 1538, Died 06/28/1615 | | [[Yehudah Loew (b.1525)]] | Died 08/22/1609 | | [[Aryeh Leib Fishles Klausner (b.1610)]] | Died 04/25/1671 | | [[Elka Slomovitz (b.1921)]] | Born 1921 | | [[Sissel Slomovitz (b.1922)]] | Died 1941 | | [[Bezalel Loew (d.1565)]] | Born 1480, Died 11/24/1565 |