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1924 1925 1927 1927
The Mizrachi Women's Teacher The Mizrachi Women's Organization Sde Yaakov, named after Rabbi The Mizrachi educational
College is founded of America, later known as AMIT, \_ ;. Reines and the first Moshav built system in Israel grows to 5,500
is founded by Bessie Gotsfeld by HaPoel HaMizrachi, is founded students and 53 institutions

Mizrachi in the lnterwar

Second Polish Republic

Rabbi Yehuda Geberer

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A group portrait of faculty and students of the Yavneh Hebrew elementary school in Bedzin, Poland, taken in June 1936.
(PHOTO: UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM, COURTESY OF MOSHE SHEPS & BAT-SZEWA SHEPS ADMONI)
I Similar to other political parties at the which reflect the uniqueness of Miz-
n the kaleidoscope of Polish
Jewish politics in the Second
rachi's values.
Polish Republic of the interwar time, Mizrachi's primary focus was
education. The Yavneh educational
period, a unique niche was filled Yavneh schools provided their stu-
network was inaugurated in 1927, lag- dents a well-rounded education in
by Mizrachi, the political organization
of Religious Zionist Polish Jews. ging behind and competing with rival Torah studies, Jewish Nationalism and
Jewish educational networks includ- Zionism and a variety of general sub-
Competing for adherents with both
ing the secular Zionist Tarbut schools, jects. Hebrew and alternatively Polish
the secular Zionist parties and the
the Yiddishist Tzisha, and Chorev of or Yiddish served as the languages of
non-Zionist Agudath Yisrael, Mizra- instruction.
chi succeeded in developing a party Agudath Yisrael. The Yavneh network
infrastructure and institutions at the defined itself and set itself apart by The school's primary source of funding
national and local levels. clarifying its three educational goals, was derived from tuition, an uncertain

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