The Jewish Quarter in Prague was a neat place to visit, and also the only place in Prague where we didn't get half off with our student IDs. (It was only about 20% off.) The Jewish Quarter consisted of quite a few synagogues that have been turned into museums with the most touching being one that had the names of all the Czech Holocaust victims handwritten on the wall.
Other places included were the Old New Synagogue, which was finished in 1270 (the oldest active synagogue in Europe) and the Jewish Cemetery.
Sarah in front of the Old New Synagogue.
Why the interesting name, you ask? Because when it was first built, it was new, but since that was in 1270, it's now old.
If we took this way of naming, our grandparents wouldn't be called grandparents, they would be old new parents, since they were new parents when their children were born, and if their children have children, they wouldn't be new parents, but old new parents.
The Jewish Cemetery
You can't really tell from this picture, but in other places you could tell how much the ground had been raised as caskets were buried on top of one another and the tombstones were simply placed next to each other, since there was only one place in Prague where the Jews could be buried.
Our adventure following our visit to the Jewish Quarter was that we needed to go to the bathroom, and for those of you who have been to Europe, you know that bathrooms aren't free over there. The only problem was, we didn't have the right amount of change to use the bathroom. No problem, right? We'll just go to a store and have them give us change. Wrong. No change there. Lucky for us, the person taking payments in the bathroom was able to give us change. Nothing like needing to go, but you can't go because you don't have change. Thank you, America for having free public bathrooms.
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