Private Half-Day Prague Walking Tour: Stories of Jewish Prague

Private Half-Day Prague Walking Tour: Stories of Jewish Prague

This 3-hour private walking tour of the Jewish Quarter in Prague with an historian guide focuses on the collection of buildings, exhibitions and sites that make up the Jewish Museum: the five remaining synagogues, the Old Jewish Cemetery and Jewish Town Hall. Your tour will be begin at the Old-New Synagogue, the oldest functioning synagogue in Europe.

Start your private 3-hour walking tour of Prague's Jewish Quarter at the Old-New Synagogue, the oldest functioning synagogue in Europe, which was built around 1270  and is also among the oldest Gothic structures in Prague. Learn about Jewish religious and social customs during the medieval period from your historian guide.

As you continue to move through one of the largest collections of Judaica in the world, the paradoxes of the Jewish experience in Prague become manifest. Also learn about the political, economic and ethnic tensions that led to Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia and discuss the implementation of the Nazi’s “Final Solution” in Prague. Also hear about life during the communist years and look at the fragile revival of Prague’s Jewish community taking place today.