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Moses Angel impressed his vision on the school during this period. By the early 1890s, more than a third of his pupils had been born abroad and, of those born in
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Angel's long association with the JFS saw the school grow through important changes. The introduction in 1870 of a national system of Board
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Although he was intent on keeping the Jewish faith alive among his pupils, Angel was unswerving in his conviction that they should adopt
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The school grew to an astonishing 2,400 pupils by 1870. In fact the school met more needs than ever before, in the 1880s and 1890s, the mass exodus of Jews from
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