Showing Results 11 - 14 of 14
Public Access
Text
In the year 5473 [1713] since the creation of, the world, from the moment it began the plague fell upon us because of our many sins. In the community we still had no one ill nor bad air in the country…
Contributor:
Moses Eisenstadt
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1713
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Before the law stands a doorkeeper. To this doorkeeper there comes a man from the country and prays for admittance to the Law. But the doorkeeper says that he cannot grant admittance at the moment…
Contributor:
Franz Kafka
Places:
Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1915
Categories:
Public Access
Image
Tombstone of Hendl bat Eberl Geronim, wife of the Court Jew Jacob Bassevi von Treuenberg (1570–1634), in the Jewish cemetery in Prague. The Hebrew date on the top part of the stone indicates that she…
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1628
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
This is November
Season of mills.
Wind of the black early morning services.
Cemetery
And thousandnightliness
Of the childish little candles,
And their fear.
Trudging now
Through the…
Contributor:
Franz Werfel
Places:
Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1917