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My elementary school had four grades. I finished the elementary school. The elementary school was a Serbian school in the Jewish quarter. The first three years I was in this school in the Jewish quarter then they transferred us to a school in the Turkish quarter. The things one learns in school today don’t remotely resemble the things we learned then. In elementary school I just learned how to read and write. To read letter by letter and to write hieroglyphics. After elementary school a person was literate and nothing more. We didn’t have religious lessons in the elementary school. No, there we just learned how to read and write the letters and to count to ten. Then there were multiplication tables, and division.
Then I went to the first grade of gymnasium which had eight grades. Rabbi Romano [6] taught us religious lessons in the gymnasium. But I don’t remember what we learned there.
Then I went to the first grade of gymnasium which had eight grades. Rabbi Romano [6] taught us religious lessons in the gymnasium. But I don’t remember what we learned there.
Location
Bitola
North Macedonia
Interview
Beno Ruso