The Minister of War, and the Acting Minister of the Interior have ordered the Tarbuth Hebrew school at Soroca, where the shooting outrage occurred recently, one of the vietims, Zelda Pferdmann, being a graduate and a former teacher of the school, to be closed down on the charge that Communist propaganda is being conducted there.
The Zionist Executive in Roumania is making urgent representations against the action, pointing out that Hebraism is part of the Jewish national revival, which the Communist regime opposes, and that Hebrew is prohibited in the Soviet countries and Hebraists persecuted and exiled.
As recalled in the J.T.A. Bulletin of the 21st. inst., in connection with the Soroca shooting affair, the Tarbuth School in Soroca was closed down by the Minister of Education in February 1931 on the charge that a Communist cell had been discovered among the students. The Jewish Deputies protested against the closing of the school, and the matter was raised several times in Parliament, until finally a new investigation was ordered, and the school was reopened.
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