Sedlec-Prčice

Sedlec-Prčice is a town in the Czech Republic. The town is sixty kilometers south of Prague. There is an old synagogue on the town square that now hosts a small factory that makes sporting equipment. Not so much as a commemorative plaque attests to the building's past. A careful check of the doorjambs of the synagogue and houses around it might turn up an overlooked mezuzah or, at least, the nail holes. Located in a field somewhere beyond the town is the old Jewish cemetery, founded in 1867.. There are still said to be a small number of gravestones hidden in the overgrowth. The cemetery is owned by the local Jewish community. With all the Jews gone, a centuries-old interdependent community slowly built up and enriched by diverse...