Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast Prague: Vol.02 - Old Town and Jewish Quarter
| Titre | Date | Durée | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Astronomical Clock and Conclusion | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:04:15 | |
The Astronomical Clock brings together science, faith and civic authority, closing a route through the communities that made Prague more than a royal capital. | |||
| Old Town Square | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:04:50 | |
Prague’s principal civic space reveals how commerce, religion, political dissent and municipal authority shaped the city beneath the castle. | |||
| Karlova and the Royal Route | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:02:46 | |
This narrow commercial street shows how Prague turned the journey between civic and royal power into a public ceremony. | |||
| The Klementinum and Jesuit Prague | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:04:21 | |
The Klementinum shows how the Jesuits used architecture, education and science to restore Catholic influence and reshape Prague’s intellectual life. | |||
| From Josefov to the Old Town | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:02:58 | |
The walk south reveals how modern redevelopment absorbed the former Jewish Town into Prague while preserving only selected fragments of its earlier urban fabric. | |||
| Maisel Synagogue and Renaissance Prague | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:03:19 | |
Mordecai Maisel’s synagogue shows how Jewish leadership, commerce and royal patronage helped transform Josefov during Prague’s Renaissance prosperity. | |||
| The Spanish Synagogue and Emancipation | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:03:26 | |
Its Moorish Revival interior reflects the growing confidence, integration and cultural influence of Prague’s Jewish community during the 19th century. | |||
| The Old-New Synagogue | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:04:11 | |
More than seven centuries of continuous worship make this Gothic synagogue the strongest surviving link between medieval Josefov and Prague’s living Jewish community. | |||
| The Old Jewish Cemetery | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:03:53 | |
The cemetery’s layered graves and crowded stones make the historic restrictions imposed on Prague’s Jewish community physically visible. | |||
| Pinkas Synagogue and Remembrance | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:02:40 | |
By replacing statistics with individual names, the Pinkas Synagogue preserves the memory of Jewish communities destroyed across Bohemia and Moravia. | |||
| Josefov: Prague’s Jewish Town | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:05:36 | |
Josefov reveals how centuries of Jewish community life survived legal restriction, forced confinement and the near-total reconstruction of its historic neighbourhood. | |||
| The Rudolfinum and Czech Cultural Identity | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:04:45 | |
The Rudolfinum shows how art, music and public architecture helped Prague express a modern Czech identity before and after independence. | |||
| Mánes Bridge and the Vltava | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:04:02 | |
Crossing the Vltava reveals how the river separated Prague’s historic communities while enabling their trade, expansion and eventual integration. | |||
| Introduction: From Jewish Prague to the Old Town | 11 Aug 2026 | 00:04:46 | |
This walk traces how Prague’s Jewish, cultural, intellectual and civic communities developed beneath the political authority of Prague Castle. | |||