There are approximately 20,000 Jews remaining in Czechoslovakia, most of them living in small isolated groups and not registered with Jewish communities, Folkstimme, the Warsaw Yiddish daily reported in the latest issue to arrive here.
The report said that there was no Jewish cultural life nor Jewish schools in the country and that only six rabbis and a number of ritual slaughterers and cantors were functioning. Rabbinical students have gone to Rumania and Hungary to carry on their studies, it added. The state supports Jewish homes for the aged in Marienbad, Brno, Bratislava and Podbierbrady.
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