(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Illiteracy among Ukrainian Jews has been greatly reduced in the past decade, figures made public here show.
While in 1920 the percentage of illiterates among the Jewish population in the Ukraine was 29, it is now only 6 percent. Illiteracy among the Ukrainians is 39 percent, the figures showed.
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