Certaines des 12,000 pierres tombales anciennes à l'intérieur des murs de l'ancien cimetière juif dans le quartier juif ou Josefov de Prague, capitale de la Tchéquie / République tchèque, présentent des caractéristiques architecturales telles que les pilastres, comme vu sur la pierre de tête à gauche de cette image. Les mémoriaux visibles cachent environ 100,000 000 inhumations dans 12 niveaux souterrains, construits sur près de 350 ans, mais quelques pierres tombales anciennes ont été soulevées au niveau du sol au fur et à mesure que les couches se sont constituées. Alors que certains portent seulement des inscriptions hébraïques, des exemples ultérieurs montrent des symboles qui font allusion au nom, au caractère ou au commerce du défunt.

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2F5WF03
• Taille du fichier: 28,7 MB (1,7 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 3872 x 2592 px | 32,8 x 21,9 cm | 12,9 x 8,6 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 22 juillet 2006
• Lieu: Old Jewish Cemetery, Jewish Quarter or Josefov, Prague, Czechia / Czech Republic.

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Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.

Prague, Czechia / Czech Republic: at least 12, 000 headstones of many different sizes, shapes and designs are crammed into the Old Jewish Cemetery in the Czech capital’s Jewish Quarter or Josefov - with around 100, 000 burials beneath them in up to 12 underground layers. Europe’s second oldest Jewish graveyard was used for nearly 350 years until 1787 and despite being enlarged, was still too small. As layers of bodies mounted, some ancient tombstones were raised to the new surface, so many visible today actually commemorate people buried several levels down. The cemetery surface now lies well above surrounding streets and the soil and graves are held in place by retaining walls. The Old Jewish Cemetery is among the world’s oldest surviving Jewish burial grounds. Its foundation date is not known, but it replaced a so-called “Jewish Garden” closed in 1478. The earliest gravestone is that of rabbi and liturgical poet Avigdor Kara (died 1439). The oldest gravestones are plain apart from Hebrew inscriptions, but later examples feature architectural details such as pilasters, as on the example on the left in this view. From the 16th century the dead were characterised by symbols relating to their name, character or profession, such as pairs of blessing hands, wine grapes or animals such as lions, bears, deer and wolves. A harp or violin indicated a musician, a lancet a physician and a pair of scissors a tailor. Important Jewish figures buried here include scholar, teacher and writer Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezulel (died 1609), Mordecai Maisel (1601), developer of the Prague Jewish Town and David Gans (1613), Renaissance scholar, historian, mathematician and astronomer. Rabbi Judah Loew’s grave draws pilgrims from all over the world, as he is accredited with creating the legendary Golem, a giant clay figure able to defend the Jewish ghetto from antisemitic attacks once it was endowed with life. D0214.A2546

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