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Re: not music, but important



   I  for one would like to know when you find out...so I can send the 
appropriate correspondence to protest this, if this is true.  Please let me 
know at:
        trudigoodman (at) yahoo(dot)com


>From: Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: not music, but important
>Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:27:48 EST
>
>
>
>Can any of you confirm whether or not this is true?
>
> >
> >>> Pressure is being put on the Jewish community in Prague by the Czech
> >>> government to allow the Ceska Pojistovna insurance company to build
> >>> residential properties on the site currently occupied by the old 
>Jewish
> >>> cemetery in the Jewish Quarter of Prague.   The cemetery is 800 years
>old
> >>> and, having survived the Nazi destruction of Jewish religious sites in
> >>> Central and Eastern Europe, is the last of its kind.  The cemetery
> >>> contains the grave of, amongst other great luminaries, the Maharal
>(Rabbi
> >>> Judah Loewe, scholar, kabbalist and creator of the Golem).  It is a 
>site
> >>> of immense Jewish religious, historic and cultural value.
> >>> The Chief Rabbi of Prague, Rabbi Efraim Sidon, has asked for Jews
> >>> worldwide to take swift action to prevent the desecration of the
> >cemetery.
> >>> Please pass on your concerns to the following addressees, and also
> >>> circulate this note to anyone who will be interested. Many thanks.
> >>> (NB: The source of this message is a recent article in the Jewish
>Tribune
> >>> and a letter written by Rabbi Sidon to the London Committee for the
> >>> Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.)
> >>>
> >>> ADDRESSEES:
> >>>
> >>> Mr. Pavel Dorstal, Minister of Culture
> >>> e-mail: minkult (at) mkcr(dot)cz <mailto:minkult (at) mkcr(dot)cz>
> >>> Tel: (+42) 2 57085111
> >>> Fax: (+42) 2 24323303
> >>> Address: Milady Horakove 139, 160 41 Praha 6, Czech Republic
> >>>
> >>> Ceska Pojistovna a.s.
> >>> e-mail: CPAS (at) CPOJ(dot)CZ
> >>> Tel: (+42) 2 24051111
> >>> Fax: (+42) 2 24241067/24052000
> >>> Address: Spalena 16, CZ-11304 Praha - Nove Mesto, Czech Republic
>
>

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