Today Prague is one of the most visited cities in Europe, the national capital for a compact Czech nation-state. Three and a half decades ago it was all but closed off to the world. In the past, the ...

The devastation of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) brought mixed fortune for the Jews of Prague. On the one hand, Emperor Ferdinand II, desperate for economic support in the war, took great pains to ...

The anniversary of the passing of the Maharal of Prague falls on 18 Elul, which this year is August 31. This is an opportunity for Jewish travelers to visit the city where his name still seems to ...

Visiting Prague, the City of a Thousand Spires, feels like an intense walk through an encyclopedia of European culture and history: its architecture, the music of Mozart, Smetana and Dvorak, Kafka’s ...

Prague is one of Europe's best-preserved cities, having been spared from last century's bombs. Nowhere is this more evident than in the hilltop Castle Quarter, which looms above the city and dominates ...