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===Jewish responses to the Nuremberg Laws===
[[Image:Jewish Children in Nazi Germany Exercise Class.jpg|thumb|Gymnastics lesson in a Berlin Jewish school, 1936]]

After the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws, the ''[[Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden]]'' (Representation of the German Jews) announced the following:

{{blockquote|The Laws decided upon by the Reichstag in Nuremberg have come as the heaviest of blows for the [[Jews in Germany]]. But they must create a basis on which a tolerable relationship becomes possible between the German and the Jewish people. The ''"Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden"'' is willing to contribute to this end with all its powers. A precondition for such a tolerable relationship is the hope that the Jews and Jewish communities of Germany will be enabled to keep a moral and economic means of existence by the halting of defamation and boycott.

The organization of the life of the Jews in Germany requires governmental recognition of an autonomous Jewish leadership. The ''Reichsvertretung der Juden'' in ''Deutschland'' is the agency competent to undertake this.

The most urgent tasks for the ''"Reichsvertretung"'', which it will press energetically and with full commitment, following the avenues it has previously taken, are:

Our own Jewish educational system must serve to prepare the youth to be upright Jews, secure in their faith, who will draw the strength to face the onerous demands which life will make on them from conscious solidarity with the Jewish community, from work for the Jewish present and faith in the Jewish future. In addition to transmitting knowledge, the Jewish schools must also serve in the systematic preparation for future occupations. With regard to preparation for emigration, particularly to [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], emphasis will be placed on guidance toward manual work and the study of the [[Hebrew (language)|Hebrew]] language. The education and [[Hakhshara|vocational training]] of girls must be directed to preparing them to carry out their responsibilities as upholders of the family and mothers of the next generation.<ref>{{cite book|last=Yahil|first=Leni|title=The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, 1932–1945|url=https://archive.org/details/holocaustfateofe00yahi_0|url-access=limited|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0195045238|page=[https://archive.org/details/holocaustfateofe00yahi_0/page/79 79]}}</ref>}}