The reactionary, anti-Semitic spirit which dominated Polish schools before the war is present in the exiled institutions where about 25,000 children are being educated at the expense of the Polish Government-in-Exile, Emanuel Szerer, Jewish Socialist deputy, charged today during a debate on the budget of the Ministry of Education.
Szerer demanded that the government take steps to prevent Polish universities from ever again becoming an instrument of reaction and anti-Semitism. He termed unsatisfactory Educational Minister Kaezynski’s formula for national and cultural education for Jews in post-war Poland and demanded the establishment, after the war, of government-financed schools where Yiddish would be the language of instruction.
To insure equal educational opportunities for Jewish students, Szerer urged that a subcommittee on Jewish schools be appointed by the government to assist in advising it on drafting plans for all educational activities.
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