Children in Soviet Jewish schools are not interested in the Soviet literature, a survey conducted in the New Zlatopol Jewish autonomous region shows.
The survey was carried out among the students of the higher classes. The children were asked which of the Soviet writers is their favorite. All without exception replied that they find no interest at all in the works of the new Soviet writers and that they preferred the works of Tolstoy, Gogul, Pushkin and other writers of the pre-revolutionary period.
With regard to Jewish writers the survey disclosed that the children have little interest in Jewish literature. They know very little about the Jewish writers of the pre-revolutionary era and have no regard for the works by the Jewish Communist authors.
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