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language of instruction is Hebrew.
Meanwhile the Society for the Promotion of Haskalah continued its work
of Russification and general civilization. After 1880 its activity was
greatly enhanced, and its members worked with renewed zeal. It opened
elementary schools, and expended large sums on stipends for students,
and the publication of useful and scholarly books. The branch in Odessa
secured two hundred and thirty-one new members in one year (1900),
making the total in that city alone nine hundred and sixty-eight. It
organized a bureau of information on pedagogic subjects, and through the
liberality of Kalonymos Wissotzky instituted prizes for original works
in Hebrew or Russian. Individual philanthropists did their utmost to
counterbalance the restrictions on education.[15]
Trade schools were opened by the Committee for the Promotion of a
Knowledge of Trade and Agriculture among the Jews of Russia, in Minsk,
Vilna, and Vitebsk, besides fifteen manual training schools for boys and
twenty for girls, in which the indigent pupils are provided with food,
clothes, and books. In 1900 thirteen new schools were opened in Kherson
and Yekaterinoslav, to supply the educational demand of the thirty-eight
colonies existing in those Governments.
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