(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Numerous petitions from Jewish children requesting the opening of schools with Hebrew as the language of instruction are being received by the Central Committee for National Minorities of the Ukrainian Zik, the Ukrainian Central Executive Committee, according to the Communist daily paper of Charkoff, “Der Stern.”
The petitioners declare that Hebrew is their mother tongue. The Communist paper states, however, that these petitions are forged, and declares that they are written in Yiddish according to the new Communist spelling and show no knowledge of Hebrew. The paper also states that all the petitions are in the same handwriting.
One thousand Jewish teachers are required for the new schools which are to be opened during 1926 throughout the Soviet Union, according to a decision of the Commissariat of Education. The number of Jewish teachers in the elementary schools was increased by 400 last year.
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