Tag #136791 - Interview #78481 (Samuel Izsak)

Besides school we had to go to the synagogue, the Neolog one. They called the roll and threatened us saying they would give lower grades in school to those who didn’t go. We didn’t like to be forced to go to the synagogue. That’s a fact. We had a really warm-hearted Hebrew teacher, whom we called Uncle Vajda – I don’t remember his first name. We liked him because he was a very kind, warm-hearted person. He knew how to handle children; he had children, too. In the upper grades a talmudist called Lipot Fleisher taught us Hebrew grammar. We had already learned to read in Hebrew in the lower grades. We learned to read and write Hebrew including punctuation. We had Bible reading in Hebrew, which was biblical Hebrew. We didn’t talk about Zionism or emigration at school. There were Zionist teachers at school, but none of them taught my class.