There are too many Jews in the liberal professions in Czechoslovakia, declares the Praha Jewish Community in its official organ.
In connection with the decision of the community to establish a special Inquiry Bureau for Jewish professionals, the newspaper deplores the preponderance of Jews in the intellectual proletariat and urges Jews to attend artisan schools.
Official figures for the school year 1933-4 quoted in the journal show 37,594 Jews attended Czech municipal schools, 7,783 went to elementary schools, 8,205 to secondary schools, 82 to agricultural schools, 1,359 to trade schools, 1,482 to artisan and special schools and 781 in other schools.
In higher education institutions, there were 3,607 Jews including 746 from abroad. Of these 1,410 are studying medicine and 1,178 law.
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