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August 23, 2007: Historical Jewish Books in Prague
"'How high the culture of Prague Jewry must have been then at the beginning of the 16th century if it could already produce such unrivalled printed creations.' The writer Sholem Asch arrived at this conclusion in 1936, upon a visit to the Library of the Jewish Religious Community in Prague. "
