Vilímková, Milada — Die Prager Judenstadt

Prague, Czechoslovakia, Aventinum, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. German language text, and the title page notes Zum Andenken an Dr. Otto Muneles, dessen Nachlaß die Grundlage dieses Buches ist. Handsomely bound in a burgundy cloth, with still sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 233 pp. and with plentiful illustrations. The Table of Contents shows: Introduction ---- History ---- The Prague Ghetto ---- Outstanding personalities of the ---- Jewish City ---- The Prague Synagogues ---- The Old Jewish Cemetery ---- Art in the Prague Ghetto. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. This fine volume recounts the destruction of the former "Jewish ghetto" in anti-Semitic Prague, specifically the architects and architecture, Jewish burial rituals and cemeteries, publishers and writers, printers and rabbis such as Rabbi Löw, Jakob Bassewi, David Oppenheim from Worms, the chief Rabbi J. Landau and the chairman of the rabbinical court S. Landauz.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good