The Advent and Christmas customs, walk-about carol-singers and Saint Nicholas with his companion, making Christmas decorations, baking waffles, gingerbread decorating...
Thirty years ago today, the freedom to travel outside of the
“brotherly” Socialist countries and Soviet bloc finally became a
reality for ordinary Czechoslovaks, as part of a last-ditch series of
measures taken by the Communist Party in a futile bid to retain power.
The early 20th century naïve painter and sketch artist Robert Guttmann, in
whose honour the exhibition gallery of the Jewish Museum in Prague is
named, was famous in his day. Mainly due to his striking appearance,