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The most significant gravesite in the early seventeenth century graveyard is that of the legendary Rabbi Yehuda Low. The range of artistic tombstone styles testifies to the longevity of the Prague Jewish community and their inscriptions recall an extensive list of world-renowned Jewish leaders. These individuals represent the dynamic work of scholarship and piety that distinguished Prague for centuries as a centre of European Jewish life and learning. Here lie the poet Avigdor Kara (d. 1430), the philanthropist Mordecai Maisel (d. 1601) and as mentioned before, the pre-eminent teacher Judah Low ben Bezalel (d. 1609). Here, too, are Low's disciple, the historiographer and astronomer Dan Gans (d. 1613), as well as the pupil of Galileo, philosopher-scientist Joseph Delmedigo (d. 1655).
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