A complaint that there are certain teachers in the Yiddish state schools who “have not yet thrown off the mentality of the bourgeois school and still have serious reminiscences of the nationalist education which they received when they were students themselves” was made today in an article published in Unirea, organ of the Jewish Democratic Committee.
Polia Barash, author of the article and inspector-general for Yiddish education in the Ministry of Education, cited the case of a Yiddish teacher employed in a state school who instructed his students in Hebrew, “not in order to increase the knowledge of his pupils, but in order to be able to carry on an activity of nationalist, Zionist propaganda.”
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