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• yiddish course
• pedagogical institute
• jewish residents
• jewish homeland
• film features
• half day
• pupils
• curriculum
• parents
• interviews

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Birobidzhan, Birobidzhan

It is a public school that offers a half-day Yiddish and Jewish curriculum for those parents who choose it. About half the schools 120 pupils are enrolled in the Yiddish course. Many of them continue on to Public School No. 2, which offers the same half-day Yiddish/Jewish curriculum from first through 12th grade. Yiddish also is offered at Birobidzhans Pedagogical Institute, one of the only university-level Yiddish courses in the country.

As well as relating the history of the creation of the proposed Jewish homeland, the film features scenes of life in contemporary Birobidzhan and interviews with Jewish residents.

Source: Wikipedia > Birobidzhan