Prague’s old Jewish Ghetto occupies a part of the Stare Mesto quarter and is important both ___34___
its size, and the cultural and tourist interest it ___35___. The Josefov quarter takes its name from the
Emperor Joseph II. The first Jewish settlements in Prague appeared around the 10th century, and ___36___
the 17th century more than 7000 Jews had made the city their home. Persecutions, fires and ___37___ were
regular occurrences ___38___ the centuries, making life difficult for the Jewish community. Towards the
middle of the 18th century, Maria Theresa of Habsburg ___39___ that the Jews should be driven out. Later
that century, however, the Emperor Joseph II had the walls of the Ghetto ___40___, restoring both the
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Jewish quarter itself, and its administrative status. The area was named ___41___ Josefov. Jews were not
___42___ Civil rights until 1848. The period of Nazi occupation in Prague was the darkest time for the
Jewish community whose members became the ___43___ of persecutions and deportations. It is ___44___
that 90% of Bohemian and Moravian Jews were killed during the Second World War. The group of buildings,
used for religious and non-religious purposes, which , together with the ___45___, make up the Ghetto, has
now been transformed into a kind of large open-air museum.
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