The abolition of subsidies received in the past by various Jewish institutions and Jewish schools, has been resolved by the Executive Committee of the Warsaw Municipality.
The withdrawal of the subventions will deal a death blow to the Jewish institutions who are already in a precarious state owing to the economic crisis.
The withdrawal of the municipal subsidies was decided upon as part of an economy measure which resulted in the cutting of the budget for social welfare and educational purposes from 1,800,000 zlotys to 1,050,000 zlotys.
Many non-Jewish institutions are altogether unaffected by the cut.
Objection is expressed to the fact that instead of making equal reductions in the budget for the various institutions, the Executive decided to eliminate some Jewish institutions from receiving aid while radically reducing subventions of others.
Thus the Tarbuth Hebrew schools which formerly received 24,000 zlotys are to receive 9,000 zlotys; the Yiddish schools known as Zischo, are cut from 60,000 zlotys to 23,000 zlotys; the Orthodox Schools and the Jewish orphanages receive proportionate cuts.
The Relief Committee for Jewish Children, which formerly received 25,000 zlotys; the Medem Sanitorium, which received 18,000 zlotys; and the Committee for the Protection of Jewish Women, which received 11,000 zlotys, have had their subsidies cancelled.
The Toz, the Jewish Health Society, which formerly received 10,000 zlotys, will now get 1,000 zlotys.
The injustice, comments the “Moment,” is gravest to the Jewish schools where University graduates receive teachers’ salaries of ten dollars per month. The schools will now be compelled to close, the paper asserts.
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