Update to Jewish Quarter in Prague

While I have been to the Jewish Quarter, I also found the New Jewish Cemetery (burial place of Kafka) in Prague 10 interesting. While much smaller, you can also visit (what's left of) the Old Jewish Cemetery in Zizkov. Much of it was destroyed when the Zizkov Tower was built, but some of the older grave sites were spared.

Well I was guiding the Jewish sites last week and yes, the Old Jewish Ceremonial Hall and Klausen Synagogue are closed and yes they don't tell you that until after you buy the ticket (see note below). I would point out two things. First, these buildings are not less than 110 years old and in the case of the Pinkas Cemetery/Synagogue (nearly 600 years) and the Old/New Synagogue (nearly 800 years) so you can expect that maintenance has to take place on a rolling basis. Second, I think that paying CZK600 to be able to go into the Pinkas Synagogue and Cemetery would be worth that as they are unique places. Add to that the Spanish Synagogue one of only two surviving synagogues in Europe that was built to celebrate European Jewish culture. If anybody plans to go to the Jewish sites in Prague and you want to see what will be included in the ticket go to https://www.jewishmuseum.cz/en/info/visit/admission/, expand the "Tour of the Prague Jewish Town" section and it shows you the open sites.

Jason, are you saying that you are a tour guide in Prague? Are you the one that does the WW2 tours? Thanks for your response.

We visited the Jewish Quarter yesterday and purchased tickets at the info center. In our case they let us know before we purchased that 2 sites were closed. Even without being able to enter those two sites we found the visit worthwhile.

Nancy, you can find info. on Jason’s tours here:

https://www.livingpraguetours.com/