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Literacy High Among Jews in Ukraine, White Russia

April 15, 1928
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Ninety-five percent of the Jews in the Ukraine read and write; in White Russia literacy among the Jewish population reaches 80 per cent, reported Chemerisky to the Jewish cultural conference in session here. Seventy-three per cent of the Jewish population recognize Yiddish as their mother tongue, the rest Russian, he stated.

Recommendations for increasing political education among the Jewish population were presented to the conference. It was decided to urge Jews to send their children to the Jewish schools which are less attended proportionately than the general schools.

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