Complete Braille Manuscripts for Jewish Blind

Completion of more than a score of manuscripts in Braille for the Jewish blind has been announced by the Committee on Jewish Literature for the Sightless operating for the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods.

Under direction of Mrs. Oscar Silberschmidt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, chairman, this committee has devoted itself to the transcription of Tracts published by the Tract Commission of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations for the past year and a half. The aim from the first was to administer to the spiritual needs of the Jewish blind of whom an incomplete survey indicates there is a total of 200 to 300 in America.

The work transcribed included: nine copies of “What Do Jews Believe?” by Rabbi H. G. Enelow of New York; three copies of “The Jew in America,” by Rabbi David Philipson of Cincinnati; one copy of “Jew and Non-Jew,” by Rabbi Martin A. Meyer; two copies of “Jewish Ethics,” by Rabbi Samuel Schulman, of New York; two copies of “The Universal Lord,” by Rabbi Maurice H. Harris, of New York; one copy of “Humanitarianism of the Laws of Israel,” by Rabbi Jacob S. Raisin, of Charleston, S. C.; one copy of “Post-Biblical Judaism,” by Rabbi Israel Bettan of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati; one copy of “The Jewish Prayer-book,” by Rabbi Solomon B. Freehoff, of Chicago; one copy of “Out of the House of Bondage,” by Miss Adele Bildersee of New York; three copies of “The Story of Genesis” by Miss Bildersee; one copy of the story, “The Clever Accomplice,” by Miss Lois Montross, Woodstock, Vt.; one of Psalms 23 and 91; and copies of several miscellaneous short stories. These articles are being circulated to a reading list of sightless Jewish readers throughout the country.