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King Solomon

King Solomon Restaurant, the oldest kosher restaurant in the Czech Republic, offers the very best of traditional Jewish cuisine from Central and Eastern Europe. We welcome you to discover for yourself the pleasure of dining with the very best in kosher culinary experiences.

After over 10 years in the market, we have established a world-renowned reputation for excellent cuisine in the charming neighborhood of the Jewish Quarter of Prague. We offer only the best from our Czech breeders – veal, fallow deer, lamb and A class kosher chicken. Poultry of the highest quality is imported from the top breeders in France, Belgium and Austria. Many of our standard meats and ingredients also carry bio certificates or „highest quality of origin” certificates. Fish (preferably local) is served fresh. We are strongly opposed to mass killings of breeds and we do not support wasteful usage of resources to transport products from around the globe.

On our menu you will find many traditional Jewish dishes from our region, such as Golden chicken broth with matzoh dumpling and almonds, Gefilte fish in vinegar jelly with grated beetroot, Veal Kishke tripe filled skins, Duck leg baked in soulet, Lamb in thick carrot sauce, Deer back with latkes, Homemade breads or great oriental salads like Houmous, Tahini or Matboucha.

We invite you to enjoy King Solomon Kosher Restaurant for intimate family celebrations, business meetings or casual get-togethers over a glass of wine. Our top priority is to provide our guests with the best possible service and we take pride in indulging your palate!
King Solomon Restaurant, located in the heart of the Jewish Quarter of Prague, has built a distinguished reputation with its customers, thanks to its superior foods and excellent services. Our clients choose to dine here because they appreciate the great taste and healthy benefits of our meals in comparison with more commonly accessible foods. Our products and services, which were first introduced to the market in 1993, are desired by both religious and nonreligious customers alike. Guests return time after time for our meals due to the natural, kosher way of processing poultry, veal, turkey, and other meats.

We are the first and only restaurant in the Czech and Slovak Republics which brings premium products from its very own breeders. All our other products are only imported from the best in their specific fields, entirely kosher and whenever possible, organic. We offer only the best products from the best locations.

Our Purpose in Kashrut
Samson Kosher Food Corporation Ltd. has two rabbis on staff, more than you will find in other Czech and Slovak producers. We are proud to be the only processers of kosher meat who, by following strictly observed rules, monitor the sharpness of the knife every six minutes. A team of mashgichim are in charge of overseeing production in our processing plants. All our shochtim and mashgichim are Bney Torah and have studied for many years in the most famous Yeshivas.

Our Mission
Our mission is not an easy one: it is to offer you the very best kosher foods and products, combined with the best services, and to go so far as to deliver to your doorstep. It is an honor for our employees to provide these services to you and they are ready to meet your needs at any time. Do not hesitate to ask about anything! Only within our company will you find such a wide range of organic products, variety of meats, homemade baked goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as delicatessen and much more – all kosher of course!

Dinitz Kosher Restaurant

DINITZ Kosher Hospitality operate the FIRST & ONLY Kosher Restaurants in Prague fully approved and Constantly supervised by the chief rabbinate of Czech Republic. Dinitz has been setting the standars leading Prague Kosher scenary for several years, it’s the most popular kosher restaurant in Prague among local Jews & even non Jewish guests not without reason. With an excellent value for money ratio allowing all guests to enjoy kosher food in Prague & a special culinary experience. A bit off the main footfall paths, this little Jewish jewel serves also vistors who seek keeping kosher in Prague, this is the place to meet local community members while enjoying a kosher vacation in Prague.

Look at our certificate guaranteeing a stricktly GLATT KOSHER place for you. Just Behind the Spanish Synagogue & at a short walking distance to all Syangogues in Prague. We Offering MEAT & PARVE dishes, take away, delivery and Kosher Catering services.

FRIDAY Festive Dinner is the best value ‘Shabbes Meal in Prague’ – an ALL Inclusive Royal feast in Prague : 4 course meal, Wine for kidush & our own home baked Challa breads for all guests & unlimited soft drinks Draught Beer, all inclusive DeLuxe menu for just 875czk. (aprox: 35 U$D – 22GBP – 29Euro)

Jewish Museum Vienna

The Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna is a place of encounter and understanding. It enables insights into Judaism, its holidays and customs, but also into youth culture. At its two locations, the Jewish Museum Vienna presents a unique overview of the history and the present-day life of Viennese Jews. We are looking forward to your visit! The Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna is a place of encounter, interaction and understanding, which seeks to raise awareness of Jewish history, religion, and culture.

The first Jewish museum in the world was founded in Vienna in 1895, sponsored by a group of Viennese Jewish citizens. The collection focused on the culture and history of the Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, particularly Vienna and Galicia. In the interwar years Zionist objects were added, reflecting the new political discussion at that time.

The museum was closed by the Nazis in 1938 directly after the Anschluss. In the last year of its existence the inventory listed 6,474 objects. In 1939 the museum collection was transferred to the Museum of Ethnology and other institutions in Vienna. The Anthropology Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna used some of the items for its anti-Semitic propaganda exhibition “The physical and psychological appearance of the Jews”.

Most of the objects were returned to the IKG Vienna in the early 1950s, although some were not restituted until the 1990s. Over half of the objects have disappeared; it is practically impossible to discover whether they were stolen or deliberately destroyed. Objects once listed in the Jewish Museum collection turn up occasionally on the art and antiques market. The surviving objects – on permanent loan from the IKG to the present-day Jewish Museum Vienna – form a unique component of the current collection.

Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial

The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial also known as the Nameless Library stands in Judenplatz in the first district of Vienna. It is the central memorial for the Austrian victims of the Holocaust and was designed by the British artist Rachel Whiteread.

The memorial is a steel and concrete construction with a base measuring 10 x 7 meters and a height of 3.8 meters. The outside surfaces of the volume are cast library shelves turned inside out. The spines of the books are facing inwards and are not visible, therefore the titles of the volumes are unknown and the content of the books remains unrevealed. The shelves of the memorial appear to hold endless copies of the same edition, which stand for the vast number of the victims, as well as the concept of Jews as “People of the Book.” The double doors are cast with the panels inside out, and have no doorknobs or handles. They suggest the possibility of coming and going, but do not open.

The memorial represents, in the style of Whiteread’s “empty spaces”, a library whose books are shown on the outside but are unreadable. The memorial can be understood as an appreciation of Judaism as a religion of the “book”; however, it also speaks of a cultural space of memory and loss created by the genocide of the European Jews. Through the emphasis of void and negative casting rather than positive form and material, it acts as a “counter monument” in this way opposite to the production through history of grandiose and triumphal monumental objects.

As a work of art, the memorial was not intended to be beautiful and as such it contrasts with much of the Baroque art and architecture of Vienna. A member of the design jury had noticed a resemblance to a bunker and the military fortifications of the Atlantic wall were later confirmed by the artist as a source of inspiration for the project. There is an aspect of discomfort in the monument that was meant to provoke thought in the viewer through the memorial’s severe presence. It was intended to evoke the tragedy and brutality of the Holocaust and in the words of Simon Wiesenthal at the unveiling, “This monument shouldn’t be beautiful, It must hurt.”

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Mauthausen Memorial

The Mauthausen Memorial today is an international site of remembrance and political-historical education. Here, the memory of the victims is being preserved, the history of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp and its sub-camps is being researched and documented, and through exhibitions and educational programmes its visitors are empowered to deal with and discuss the history of concentration camps.

From 1938 to 1945, the Mauthausen Concentration Camp was pivot to a system of more than 40 sub-camps, and the central site of political, social and racial persecution by the NS regime on the Austrian territory. Of a total of 190,000 persons held prisoners here, at least 90,000 were eventually killed.

The Mauthausen Memorial aims at raising awareness for any resurgence of National Socialist activities, anti-Semitism, racism, discrimination of minorities and antidemocratic tendencies. Furthermore, it is supposed to contribute to preserving public knowledge and memory of National Socialist mass crimes committed at the former Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps, and at all its sub-camps. The Mauthausen Memorial regards itself as a place of remembrance and education, with human rights education through live teaching of history being among its central tasks. It promotes the teaching of history, communicates its significance for present and future times and aims at pointing out comparable present day developments, tendencies and processes.

Jewish Info Point (in Singer Jewish bookstore and cafe)

A Jewish bookshop, café, and cultural meeting point, the store now hosts the Jewish Info Point for Vienna: an initiative of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, with support from the city authorities and tourist organisations. As well as a starting point for tours, the Info Point offers information in various languages about Jewish life in the city, both past and present, as well as tips concerning relevant events and activities. The location is no coincidence, being close to both the community’s city temple and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute.

Jerusalem Synagogue

Jubilee Synagogue, also known as the Jerusalem Synagogue, is location on Jerusalem Street in Prague, Czech Republic. It was built in 1906, designed by Wilhelm Stiassny and named in honor of the silver Jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria.

The synagogue is designed in Moorish Revival form with Art Nouveau decoration, especially in the interior. It was lately renovated and still serves religious purposes. Since Czechoslovakia became independent in 1918, it has been called the Jerusalem Synagogue as the name Jubilee Synagogue referred to the anniversary of the rule of Franz Joseph I in the defeated Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

The facade and form of the synagogue are a hybridized blend of Moorish Revival and Art Nouveau, with horseshoe arches on the facade and on the interior columns supporting the women’s galleries in a three-bay building. The Mudéjar red-and-white coursing of the stone facade is particularly striking. Inside, the Moorish elements are overlaid with brilliantly painted Art Nouveau patterning.

After a century of being open to the public as a house of worship, except for the period of Nazi German occupation when it was used to store confiscated Jewish property, on 1 April 2008 the Jubilee Synagogue began opening its doors on a regular basis to tourists and aficionados of historic architecture.

The Spanish Synagogue

The Spanish Synagogue was built in the late 19th century, making it one of Prague’s more recent historic synagogues. This is evidenced by its lavish appearance, which is in stark contrast to the other fairly modest synagogues in Josefov. The Spanish Synagogue boasts a well-kept, beautifully detailed facade, with a Spanish Moorish style. Even the impressive exterior is incomparable to the inner section of the synagogue, with its elaborate decorations, intricately designed ceilings, beautiful arches, stained glass windows and an ornate Holy Ark. Once used as a sacred space for prayers, the synagogue today is a museum and concert hall, which is open daily to visitors. Be sure to check the museum’s website for visiting hours as they vary depending on the season.

Jewish Ceremonial Hall

The Jewish Ceremonial Hall (Obřadní síň in Czech) can be found in the Josefov or Jewish Quarter of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. It was built in 1911-12 under the direction of architect J. Gerstl for the Jewish Burial Society (Hevra Kadisha) and is in the neo-Romanesque style. Originally used as a ceremonial hall and mortuary it now forms part of The Jewish Museum of Prague holding exhibitions relating to Jewish history.

The ticket you get from the museum covers a guided visit of the Ceremonial Hall, Old Jewish Cemetery, The Old-New Synagogue, the Pinkas Synagogue, the Klausen Synagogue, the Spanish Synagogue and Meisel Synagogue.

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The Jewish Town Hall

Like many other structures in Prague’s Jewish Quarter, the Jewish Town Hall (Židovská Radnice in Czech) was funded by Mordechai Maisel, the community leader, philanthropist and one of its richest citizens during the 16th century. The Hall was built by Panacius Roder in 1586, with a distinct Renaissance style. It was originally used as the main meeting point for the local Jewish community until it was destroyed by a fire in 1755. The building was then reconstructed by Josef Schlesinger, in a Late Baroque style. This historical landmark boasts two clocks on its façade, a feature that symbolizes the former Prague Ghetto. The clock which is higher up on the tower uses Roman numerals. Notably, the second clock uses Hebrew numerals and hands that move counterclockwise. Although the Town Hall is not open to the public, it is still worth seeking out when touring the Jewish Quarter.

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