Austria passes a law banning hijabs and burqas being worn in schools by girls aged under 14.
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Polish Forbidden in Jewish Schools
After a prolonged controversy between the Nationalist and the assimilated Jews in Warsaw, the German Government finally recognized the demands of the Nationalist Jews and forbade the use of Polish in Jewish schools, where only Yiddish might be used. This is regarded as a great victory for the Jewish Nationalists throughout Poland, who have been carrying on the fight ever since the occupation of Poland by the Germans.
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Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918)
The Kingdom of Poland was a short-lived puppet state of the German Empire proclaimed during World War I on 5 November 1916 on the territories of formerly Russian-ruled Congress Poland held by the Central Powers. It was subsequently transformed between 7 October 1918 and 22 November 1918 into the independent Second Polish Republic.
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The Little Treaty of Versailles (Polish: Mały traktat wersalski) was the first of the Minority Treaties signed in the aftermath of the First World War, signed on 28 June 1919. National minorities could use their own language in schools, and these provisions were guaranteed by the League of Nations and could not be changed without consent of a majority of the League of Nations Council.
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Introduction of ghetto benches
Ghetto benches were officially sanctioned for the first time in December 1935 at the Lwów Polytechnic. Following several violent attacks against Jewish students, school officials ordered that they sit in separate sections, under threat of expulsion. Rectors at other higher education institutions in the Second Polish Republic adopted this form of segregation when the practice became conditionally legalized by 1937.
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