Sixty different languages and dialects are spoken in Palestine, 33 of them by Jews of all nations. This information is contained in an official government report on the subject of Jewish education.
Fifty different countries have contributed to the present Jewish population of Palestine, Poland leading with 35,776. Nine Jews were given in the census as belonging to “no man’s land.” They were born at sea.
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