The New Jewish Cemetery ( cs, Nový židovský hřbitov) in

Žižkov Žižkov is a cadastral district of Prague, Czech Republic. Most of Žižkov lies in the municipal and administrative district of Prague 3, except for very small parts which are in Prague 8 and Prague 10. Prior to 1922, Žižkov was an indep ...

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, Czech Republic, was established in 1890 to relieve the space problem at the

Old Jewish cemetery in Žižkov Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Mai ...

, where the

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now stands. It is about 10 times bigger than the Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov and provides space for approximately 100,000 graves, therefore having the capacity to serve for a whole century.
Prague City Tourism There is also a specially designated area for urns, though the Jewish tradition does not allow

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. The cemetery is still in use today and operated by the Jewish Community in Prague. The cemetery is noted for its many

art nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

monuments, among them, two monuments for members of the Perutz family by

Jan Kotěra Jan Kotěra (18 December 1871 – 17 April 1923) was a Czech architect, artist and interior designer, and one of the key figures of modern architecture in Bohemia. Biography Kotěra was born in Brno, the largest city in Moravia, to a Czech fathe ...

, the monument to artist

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by Jan Štursa in the form of a mourning peacock, and many remarkable works of the decorative and sculptural arts in florid

style by less well-known artists.Marie vitochova Jindrichkjer and Jiri Vsetecka, ''Prague and Art Nouveau'', translation by Denis Rath and Mark Prescott, Prague: V Raji, 1995. One of the more elaborate tombs belongs to the Waldes family; the tomb is decorated with two busts, the last pieces of art made by the important Czech sculptor Josef Václav Myslbek, creator of the

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famous statue of St. Wenceslas.

Notable burials

Franz Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typ ...

* Arne Laurin *

Arnošt Lustig Arnošt Lustig (; 21 December 1926 – 26 February 2011) was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust. Life and work Lustig was born in Prague. As a Jewish boy ...

* Jiří Orten *

Ota Pavel Ota Pavel (born Otto Popper) (2 July 1930, in Prague – 31 March 1973, in Prague) was a Czech writer, journalist and sport reporter. He is primarily an author of autobiographical and biographical novels. Biography He was born in Prague as the ...

* Vilem Flusser

References

External links

Information at the Jewish Community of Prague website

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