The authorities today prohibited a protest meeting arranged by the Central Jewish School Organization for Monday against the government’s withdrawal of subsidy from the Yiddish schools in Poland.
While discriminating against the Jewish school, the Polish authorities have given the status of public school to private religious Chedarim, which are long out of date from a pedagogical viewpoint. Tens of thousands of Jewish pupils in the Yiddish and Hebrew school system are affected by the government discrimination.
At the protest meeting scheduled for Monday, the speakers were planning to base their complaints on the fact that the Jewish population in Poland, being only ten per cent as compared with the general population, contributes as much as forty per cent toward the government budget. This extraordinary proportion, they were to point out, entitles them at least the same proportion of government subsidies as the schools of other denominations are receiving.
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