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in the 19th century, the government-appointed Chief Rabbi of Prague, and (relatively orthodox) proponent of the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskala) Movement, Rabbi Shlomo Yehudah Leib (Solomon Judah Löb) HaKohen Rapoport, decided to document, with the help of his student Kalman Lieben, the ancient headstones of the jewish cemetery of Prague, lest they be lost to the everflowing sands of time. In a book called "Gal'ed" (biblical hebrew for Cairn), He documented the names of jews, both men and women, who were buried in the jewish cemetery of Prague, from the time of the Maharal of Prague (famous for the legend about creating the Golem) up until his day. I hope to document the names I find notable from this long list.

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Men:
Yehoshua
Avigdor
Gedaliah
Gavriel
Gershom
Yehudah (the Maharal of Prague)
Bezalel (his father)
David
Shlomo Ephraim
Zvi Hirsch
Wolf
Yechi'el
Yitzhak
Yeshayah
Mordechai
Zeligmann
Natan
Yisrael
Azriel
Meir
Meshulam
Yonah
Eliyahu
Aharon Shim'on
Eliezer (Liebmann)
Yochanan
Ebrel (Avraham)
Shaul
Menachem
Elchanan
Yosef
Shema'yah
Zalman
Bendt
Zechariah Mendel (one of my favorite combinations)
Falk (His hebrew name was more than likely Yehoshua, as was the name for all jews named Falk in eastern and central europe up until the 19th century)
Baruch
Pinchas
Lipman
Leibel (Yehudah)
Leowe (named after the Maharal)
Shalom
Chaim
Kalman (Kalonymus)
Leon (Yehudah)
Elia
Binyamin Wolf
Yechi'el Michel
Hizkiah (Weichel)
Isaac
Shabtai
Naphtali
Reuven
Shimshon
El'azar
Feivish
Moshe
Yechezkiyah
Lemel (Hebrew name is most likely Asher)
Nechemyah
Chanoch
Yechezkel
Levi
Zerach
Yoel
Ephraim Fischel
Asher
Ber
Issachar Ber
Uri
Shimon Wolf
Petachiah
Sinai
Aba Mari (was a common name for the early Ashkenazi jews in France, Rhineland and Germany, but also in Czechia)

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Women:
Sarah
Perl (the Maharal's wife)
Hendel
Elka
Slava
Rela (perhaps Rachel)
Baila
Chaya
Muskat
Naomi (Naominissel)
Tristel
Chava
Pesil
Matrona
Feigele
Rivka
Shprintzel (derived from Esperansa, the basis for thr matronymic jewish surname Szprinczak)
Reizel
Vreidel
Miriam
Drezil
Rozel (Rosa?)

This message was edited 4/22/2023, 11:29 PM