Old Prague Legends
Author: Magdalena Wagnerová
Publisher: Nakladatelství PLOT
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Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →29 tales of legends associated with several well-known sites of old Prague
Author: Magdalena Wagnerová
Publisher: Nakladatelství PLOT
Published:
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →29 tales of legends associated with several well-known sites of old Prague
Author: Alois Jirásek
Publisher:
Published: 1931
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of old Czech stories and legends.
Author: Alois Jirasek
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9789231028281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in the early 1980s, at a time of patriotic upsurge and romanticism, these legends reflect a glorification of the Czech past, tempered by a sense of nostalgia reflected in old Czech legends, tales of Old Prague, myths of the Middle Ages and ancient prophecies.
Author: Sulamith Ish-Kishor
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 048646766X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a young peasant in sixteenth-century Prague is caught stealing, the lord of the manor sentences him to service in the Jewish ghetto, where he discovers unexpected kindness.
Author: Alois Jirásek
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written in the early 1890s, before Czech independence and in an age of patriotic upsurge and romanticism, these thirty-four tales quite naturally reflect a glorification of the Czech past. While the details of the legends are necessarily archaic, peopled by kings and noblemen, ghosts and magic, the themes are universal. Now at the dawn of a new era of Czech independence, they provide a fascinating new perspective to the contemporary situation.
Author: V. V. Tomek
Publisher: Sharpless House
Published: 2008-06-03
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1438230052
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than eight centuries, the Jews of Prague lived in the Prague ghetto. During that time, Jewish Prague had always been a place of much mystery to outsiders, even to the closest Christian neighbors. Uncover the secrets of this long forgotten world. Learn about how the famous Old-New Synagogue received its name; about the four words that saved the Prague Jews in the Middle Ages; about Rabbi Loew and his Golem who could be brought to life by inserting a magic card into his mouth; about the Candelabra of Jerusalem finding its way to Prague; about hard-working Maisel and his inheritance; about how the faith of Pinkas was tried; about learned Rabbi Rashi's grave; and about much more.
Author: Alena Ježková
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9788072521395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Wisniewski
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2007-11-19
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0547531796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Retold from traditional sources and accompanied by David Wisniewski's unique cut-paper illustrations, Golem is a dramatic tale of supernatural forces invoked to save an oppressed people. It also offers a thought-provoking look at the consequences of unleashing power beyond human control. The afterword discusses the legend of the golem and its roots in the history of the Jews. A Caldecott Medal Book.
Author: Joseph Wechsberg
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Published: 2023-09-08
Total Pages: 163
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There is a strange triality in Prague’s history — Czechs, Germans, Jews; Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism; rulers, nobles, peasants; Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque. Joseph Wechsberg penetrates Prague’s world to recapture an extraordinary cultural, spiritual, political, artistic and embattled past. Prague was the home of Kafka, Rilke, Neruda and Werfel, of “heretic” Jan Hus, of “Good King (and later Saint) Wenceslas”; the inspiration of Mozart; the mecca of alchemists, astronomers and adventurers; it gave birth to folklore, fantasy and bizarre facts, such as the Golem, a manlike figure of clay that was brought to life by its alleged creator, “High Rabbi” Loew, in the 16th century. She was the first town in Central Europe with paved streets that were regularly cleaned (1340). The Thirty Years’ War began and ended in Prague. And it was here that the Counter-Reformation reached its brutal climax. The city comes alive, from its founder Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor who made Prague the cultural center of Europe; the Hussite Era; the 300 years of Habsburg domination that followed; to the great Republic of humanist-philosopher Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the horrors of Nazi occupation and, finally, the gray realities of communism, and the 1968 “Prague Spring” which began with Dubček, ended with the invasion by the Warsaw Pact troops and Jan Palach‘s self-immolation on January 16, 1969. “Nothing is clear and simple in Prague; everything is enigmatic and complex. The city’s thousand-year-old history is constant flux and reflux, love and hatred, struggle and synthesis, contrast and symbiosis. Princes fight tribal leaders, kings fight the Estates, feudal rulers fight the upcoming bourgeoisie, the city fights the countryside, haves fight the have-nots. More recently, Czechs have fought Czechs. The social struggles have ended with the conversion of former have-nots into haves, and vice versa — but for how long? There are religious struggles throughout the centuries: pagans against Christians, Christians against “heretic” Christians, Utraquists against Jesuits, Christians against Jews... Today Prague is a Czech city but it would be wrong to write the story of Prague as a Czech city, or as a German city, or as a Jewish city. Prague is all three... Prague always was either battlefield or symbiosis... Tolerance was never widespread in this city of cruel passions where the bizarre nomenclature reflects history... The story of Prague depends on who writes it.” — Joseph Wechsberg, Prague: The Mystical City “Joseph Wechsberg... wrote compellingly of [Prague,] this compelling city.” — Henry Kamm, The New York Times “[G]raceful and immaculately styled.” — Kirkus