(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Decisions favorably affecting the rights of the Jewish population in the Republic of Poland were adopted by the political committee of the Council of Ministers, the Polish Cabinet. According to an official statement issued by the Committee, it was decided to permit the use of all European languages, including the Yiddish and Hebrew languages, in the mails and in telegrams.
The Committee also annulled the old Austrian law which was applied up to the present in Galicia, according to which the languages at public meetings were Polish, Ukrainian and German. By the present decision the use of Hebrew and Yiddish will be allowed.
The most important of the decisions of the Committee, concerns the facilities for acquiring citizenship on the part of foreigners. This category was comprised of a large number of people who were not born in Poland proper, but in the Eastern provinces. This decision will finally regulate the situation of many Jewish families in the Eastern provinces who were in the precarious position of being “men without a country.” The Committee also annulled the order of former Minister of Education Miklaszewski which prohibited the use of Yiddish and Hebrew in the Kehillah councils.
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