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Spotlight

07/13/2002
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In Spotlight this week, Ian Willoughby visits the enchanting Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague's Josefov district, which was a Jewish ghetto from the mid-13th century. The famous cemetery is one of the oldest in Europe, and is the resting place of among others Rabbi Leow, who legend has it created a Golem out of mud from the nearby Vltava river. See parts of the cemetery closed to tourists in a fascinating edition of Spotlight.

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