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German Enrollment Drops, Hebrew Rises in New York Schools

April 24, 1940
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In the six years since Hitler’s advent to power in Germany enrollment in German classes in the New York City schools has dropped 50 per cent, according to the Board of Education’s Foreign Language Department. There are 11,517 German students, compared with 22,550 in 1934. In the same period Hebrew enrollment increased more than 500 per cent–from 475 in 1934 to 2,853 in March, 1940.

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