There are now 813 Jewish schools in the Soviet Union, where 121,117 children are being educated, it was announced today. In 1926 there were only 509 schools, with 70,484 pupils, thus the Jewish schools in Russia have increased sixty percent in the last three years and the number of Jewish students has increased seventy-two percent.
According to territories, the school are divided as follows: Ukrainia, 517 schools and 85,968 students; White Russia, 210 schools and 28,595 students, and Central Russia, 86 schools and 6,604 students. Only 20 percent of the Jewish children in Ukrainia now remain outside of Jewish schools, 28 percent in Ukrainia, and 12 percent in Central Russia.
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