In connection with the World Conference for work on behalf of the Blind, which is now in session here, an American Jewish Braille Institute for assisting the cultural and religious needs of the Jewish blind has been organised here to-day. The Institute will publish a monthly magazine for free distribution among English-speaking Jewish blind all over the world. The Institute will adopt the International Braille code and will supply Hebrew literature on that system, adopting also the Moon system for Yiddish for elderly Yiddish-speaking blind who cannot learn the complicated Braille.
In New York there are 1,050 Jewish blind, while all over the world there are 7,500 to 8,000 Jewish blind, according to Dr. Siegfried Altman, the Director of the Jewish Institute for the Blind in Vienna, who is now here attending the Blind World Conference.
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