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Hebrew Gymnasium founded
The Hebrew Gymnasium was founded in 1919.
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... The Hebrew Gymnasium was the best Jewish
secondary school in Bialystok, the only one where
Hebrew was the primary language of instruction.
Another high school taught in Yiddish and four others
in Polish. The Hebrew Gymnasium was founded in
1919. It always offered pre-high-school classes. Consis-
tently there was a ratio of sixty percent boys to forty
percent girls. From 1926-36, 367 students graduated, of
whom 144 later settled in Israel. ...Connected nodes