Talk:Old New Synagogue

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[edit] Hitler's museum

I had heard that, during World War II, Hitler planned to make this synagogue into a museum describing the history of Jews in Europe (which he of course intended to put an end to). Does anyone else know anything about this? --Jfruh 14:47, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

• This synagogue would have been too small to hold much of a museum by itself. There is an interesting discussion at [1] which says that there already was a Jewish Museum in Prague before the war, and that a member of the Jewish community proposed that the museum house Jewish ritual object confiscated by the Nazis and that Hitler liked the idea as a museum to an "extinct race." The present Jewish Museum in Prague is housed in several former synagogues and has a very large collection of ritual objects. They both beautiful and very sad, when you realized the collection amounts to a census of destroyed communities. One exhibit burned into my memory is a large WW-II-era crate filled with tefilin. --agr 19:01, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

According to the Lonely Planet guidebook for Czech & Slovak Republics (2007 Ed.), the entire Jewish neighborhood was meant to be a "Museum of an Extinct Race" --thus they spared the neighborhood and its historic buildings. --Bobak 19:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] verifiable source for LEGEND? of Golem

how exactelly you find " verifiable source " for legend? Just read article about Golem of Prague. 71.99.122.149 (talk) 05:41, 29 January 2008 (UTC)