Traditional Jewish school education was religious. It was given to boys. The girls studied at home. Children from poor families and orphans studied at community facilities - the Talmud-Torah. Imagine yourself at such a school, sitting at the reconstructed school desks.

Boys from wealthy families from 3 years old studied in a private elementary school – cheder. If desired, after the cheder one can continue his studies in a higher educational institution – yeshiva. For centuries, yeshivas were the main central establishments of traditional Jewish culture. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries Hasidic yeshivas emerged, the most well-known among them was Lubavitch one – Tomkhey tmimim. The central collage is dedicated to it.

To the right there is a collage dedicated to Haskalah. It was a movement of Jewish enlightenment. It originated in the second half of the 18th century. The Haskalah activists opposed cultural- religious isolation of the Jews and saw the solution for improvement condition of the Jewish population in adoption of secular European education and cultural integration into society of those countries where Jewish communities lived.

Those Jews who wanted for a secular education could study at gymnasiums or professional schools, and at higher educational institutions. In the showcases you can see diplomas of graduates of Russian universities and institutes. However, in the Russian Empire, since 1886, there was a limited access for Jews when entering the educational institutions. Inside of the Pale of Settlement, proportion of the Jews in the men’s gymnasiums, in high schools and universities should not exceed 10%, in other regions of empire - 5%, in the capital – 3%.

Since 1919, when the Soviet government passed a law on the prohibition of religious education for children under 18, cheders and yeshivas moved to a semi-legal and illegal position. With the aim of joining young Communist ideals and values, there was created a new educational network for the Jews. Children from 8 to 14 years old could study at a seven-year vocational school. In showcase 1.21, you can notice certificate of the seven-year education in two languages: Ukrainian and Yiddish. Jewish youth could continue to study in artisan schools. In the 1920s and 1930s, in Soviet Ukraine there were 3 pedagogical, 5 agricultural, 20 industrial Jewish technical colleges and Dnipropetrovsk People's Jewish University.

On the walls above the school desks, there is a collage of photographs, both traditional pre-revolutionary and educational institutions created by the Soviet authorities.

In the showcases there are materials concerning the Jewish graduates of educational institutions. Showcase 1.19 is dedicated to healthcare professionals. In window 1.20 - the documents concerning representatives of manufacturing specialties. The exhibits of the showcase 1.21 provides information about graduates of pedagogical schools.

A separate collage, dedicated to the work of prominent educator Janusz Korczak, has previously indicated that he was Henryk Goldszmit. In 1911 He founded the Jewish Orphanage in Warsaw. During the Holocaust, this orphanage has been transferred to the ghetto. When the Nazis started liquidation the ghetto, Korczak, though he was able to save himself but he refused to leave his orphans. Together with them, he was murdered in a gas chamber of death camp Treblinka.