The old Jewish cemetery in Žižkov was established in 1679 as a plague burial ground for the Prague Jewish community. Burials continued here during subsequent epidemics and then regularly between 1787 and 1890. Approximately 35,000 people are buried at this important historical site, including a number of prominent rabbis, scholars, doctors, and early Jewish entrepreneurs. The most visited grave is that of Chief Rabbi Ezechiel Landau (Noda bi-Yehuda). After 1948, the cemetery was deliberately vandalized. First, most of the cemetery was converted into a public park in the 1960s, and then a TV transmitter was built on the site in the mid-1980s. Only the most historically valuable remains of what was once Prague's largest Jewish cemetery have been preserved to this day.

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