Great indignation prevails among the Jewish leaders in Poland in connection with the interference which the Polish Government is now actively exhibiting in inner-Jewish Kehillah matters by crossing out from the Kehilla budgets all subsidies for Jewish cultural institutions.
As an explanation for its action the Government gives the pretext that the Kehillas are just religious and philanthropic institutions, therefore, they have no right to grant subsidies to Jewish schools and other cultural enterprises.
A report from the city of Kielc reveals today that a number of important Jewish artisan schools and also elementary schools where many hundreds of poor Jewish children have been receiving educational training, will have to be closed down now because the Ministry of Education definitely prohibits the Kehillah of Kielc to support these institutions.
The institutions which will be liquidated now due to the interference on the part of the Ministry of Education, were not only of cultural value for those at ending, but also of effective social relief, training their pupils for various professional under takings, and at the same time providing kitchens in these schools to feed and maintain their pupils. The Kehillah of Kielc found it extremely important to subsidize these schools notwithstanding the fact that due to the present economic depression in Poland, the Kehillah funds are very limited.
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