According to legend, about the year 1580, Rabbi Judah Loew, known as the Maharal, created a golem, a humanoid creature, from the mud of the Vltava River.
The Pinkas Synagogue in central Prague. The walls in the synagogue are overwritten with some 80,000 names of the Czech Jews who died in the Holocaust(photo credit: REUTERS)ByAHARON E. WEXLER