To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Cultural Autonomy of the Republic of Estonia, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the building of the Tallinn Jewish School on June 5, 2026. The plaque features text in three languages—Estonian, English, and Hebrew:

Starting from February 3, 1924, this building housed the Tallinn Jewish Private Gymnasium. The school's premises were not used solely for educational purposes but also became the center of social life for Estonian Jews.

On June 6, 1926, the Cultural Autonomy of Estonian Jews was proclaimed in the school's assembly hall—a unique phenomenon in global Jewish history. In 1927, the name of the Republic of Estonia was entered into the Jewish National Fund's Golden Book as a gesture of gratitude for granting this cultural autonomy.

The cultural autonomy was liquidated following the start of the Soviet occupation in the summer of 1940. The school building was nationalized, and the gymnasium became Tallinn School No. 13. The building was eventually returned in 1990 to its owner—the Jewish Religious Community.

The upper section depicts the building as it was 100 years ago, when it housed the Tallinn Jewish Private Co-educational Gymnasium. The lower section features a certificate stating that Estonia was inscribed in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund in gratitude for the country granting cultural autonomy to its Jewish minority for the first time in Jewish history.

Alla Jakobson, an attorney-at-law and member of both the Board of the Jewish Museum and the Council of the Estonian Jewish Community, spoke at the unveiling of the memorial plaque. She shared that the events surrounding the cultural autonomy hold a personal connection for her, as both her father and daughter studied in this building, and her father was an active participant in the Zionist movement. She also expressed her delight that this historic event for Estonian Jews is now preserved not only in archival documents but also here, on the building of the former gymnasium.

The District Elder of Central Tallinn, Nikita Groznov, congratulated the Jewish community on its jubilee and reaffirmed that both the Central Tallinn District Administration and the city of Tallinn as a whole are keen on supporting the community and its activities.

The Chief Rabbi of Estonia, Shmuel Kot, delivered part of his speech in Yiddish and Hebrew, as these were the languages used by the students and teachers of this school, and Yiddish was the mother tongue of Jews during the period of cultural autonomy. In conclusion, he recited a psalm of thanksgiving (Psalm 100). The plaque was unveiled by Alla Jakobson, Rabbi Kot, and Aleksandr Zdankevitš, Chairman of the Council of the Estonian Jewish Community. The ceremony was also attended by Amit Gil-Bayaz, the Ambassador of the State of Israel to Estonia.

The memorial plaque was installed at the initiative of the Estonian Jewish Museum as part of an initiative to commemorate historical Jewish sites in Estonia. Private individuals donated 94% of the funds required to create and install the plaque, with additional contributions from the Estonian Jewish Community and the Estonian Jewish Religious Community.