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Since Poland regained independence, the issue of educating children and youth was the subject of many discussions and disputes both in Jewish circles and between representatives of the Jewish ethnic minority and the Polish authorities. As a result, in the Second Polish Republic, apart from state schools attended by Jewish children and youth, there were several school systems, both secular and religious, whose creators tried to meet the expectations of the state and society. Apart from religious schools, Jews had a highly developed network of secular schools coordinated by particular political parties and were the only minority in Poland to organise equivalents of academic institutes. The non-religious academic schools and universities attracted Jewish youth, although in the second half of the 1930s, acquiring university education was more difficult for Jews than others. Albeit the 1932 education reform did not entail the liquidation of Jewish schools, it changed the conditions of their functioning.
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Jewish schools began to appear in postwar Poland as early as 1945. From the very beginning, the Jewish community disputed their design, character and funding. The conflicting views were held by the faction of the Polish Workers’ Party, later transformed into the Polish United Workers’ Party, in the Central Committee of Jews in Poland and the Zionists. At the root was the question of the future of Jews in Poland: whether they should stay or leave the country and fight for the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine or participate in it after Israel was founded in May 1948. The socialists from the Polish Workers’ Party opted for instructing children to stay in Poland. They wanted to establish secular schools with Jewish as a medium of instruction and raise young Jews to be citizens of socialist Poland while keeping certain Jewish traditions. The Zionists demanded the Hebrew language, the prehistory of the Jews, Palestinian studies and the Bible be taught in schools so that students would be prepared for living abroad. All institutions tried to educate the young generation. School curricula and the education system helped parents and students to choose the path for the future.
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