The circulation of the Soviet Jewish press is growing, the number of Yiddish books printed is increasing, but the Jewish township and the Jewish cultural workers evince no great desire to spread Jewish books, declaring that the youth does not wish to learn Yiddish.
“It is better to learn a European language,” declares a school teacher in the Jewish township of Kubilichi, Ukraine. “Though I belong to the Jewish race I nevertheless regard myself as an internationalist, and I have practically forgotten the Yiddish language.”
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