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Today at sunset, on our 4K Prague walk, we will pass through Jewish Quarter and visit Old Town Square. 03:00. Josefov (Jewish Quarter) is a town quarter and the smallest cadastral area of Prague, Czech Republic, formerly the Jewish ghetto of the town. The Old Town surrounds it. The quarter is often represented by the flag of Prague's Jewish community, a yellow Magen David (Star of David) on a red field. Jews are believed to have settled in Prague as early as the 10th century. The first pogrom was in 1096 (the first crusade), and eventually, they were concentrated within a walled Ghetto. In 1262, Přemysl Otakar II issued a Statuta Judaeorum, which granted the community a degree of self-administration. In 1389, one of the worst pogroms saw 1,500 massacred on Easter Sunday. The ghetto was most prosperous towards the end of the 16th century when the Jewish Mayor, Mordecai Maisel, became the Minister of Finance and a very wealthy man. His money helped develop the ghetto. In
