Grand Mother did not Know how to Read and Write: on Learning and on Illiteracy, on Freedom and Slavery"

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Grand Mother did not Know how to Read and Write: on Learning and on Illiteracy, on Freedom and Slavery", Jerusalem: Carmel 2018 The book includes 820 pages (247,967 words) and it had been published by Carmel publishing house in Jerusalem in September 2018. The book starts with a chapter on Jewish communal compulsory education for Jewish boys, that was ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE FOR TEN YEARS FOR ALL MALE CHILDREN, continues with the striking absence of any communal education for girls, and on the implication of this fact in the 20th century immigration to Israel 1949-1954 . To the great amazement of our National Statistical Burro , 57.8 % of all the Jewish women above the age of fifteen who came as new immigrants from the traditional world in Asia and Africa, were completely illiterate and 26.2% among them did not finish elementary school. 6.3% of all the women above age 15 who came to Israel from Europe at this period, were completely an-alphabetic and 31.9% among them did not finish elementary school