Current Affairs Nine Gates festival recreates lost world of Prague's pre-war culture

20-06-2008 15:46 | Rob Cameron

Throughout June, the Czech capital Prague is playing host to the ninth annual Nine Gates festival of Czech-German-Jewish culture. Nine Gates is a combination of music, theatre and literature of the period before the Second World War, when Prague was a multiethnic, multicultural city, most of whose inhabitants were comfortable speaking both Czech and German.

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