Otto Strandman, president of Esthonia, who is visiting Poland, told a group of Jewish newspapermen who interviewed him that “we are proud that Esthonia was the first state to recognize the Jewish minority and to give it an opportunity for the free development of its national cultural autonomy and gave equal rights to Jewish and Hebrew schools.”
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