Tallinn Jewish School ( et, Tallinna Juudi Kool) is a school in the center of

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

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History

The Jewish School was built before

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. When the war started the school was closed and the Sea Army center was there during the war and after war time. In 1990 the school was opened again with 350 pupils. Samuel Gurin was director from 1925 until its closure in 1940. From the re-opening in 1990 to 1993, Avivia Gluhovskaja was the director. The headmaster from 1993 until 21 June 2009 was Mihhail Beilinson, and was followed by Samuel Golomb, who remained until 2010, when the current incumbent, Igor Lirisman, took over.

Faculty and facilities

About 30 teachers are working in this school, and in addition one teacher of

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who is sent from

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. Every year, renovations are carried out at the school, but since the building is very old, there are a lot of problems with the main construction. The state cannot give money to school because it is property of the Jewish Community in Estonia. Approximately 3000 Jews live in Estonia and most of them in Tallinn, but a lot of Jewish families send their children to normal schools, one of the reasons being that the school's teaching language is Russian, whereas it has been estimated that a third of the Estonian Jewish community speaks

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. In Tallinn Jewish School, three additional courses are studied: Hebrew, Jewish History, Jewish Traditions.

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* (in Estonian, Russian and English language) {{Coord, 59.4386331, N, 24.7660697, E, type:edu_region:EE, display=title Schools in Tallinn Jewish schools 1924 establishments in Estonia Educational institutions established in 1924