To meet the demand for books on Jewish subjects by the adult Jewish blind of this country, the Library Congress, at the instance of Rabbi Harry J. Brevis, Chaplain of the Jewish Blind with the New York Board of Jewish Ministers, will transcribe into braille, out of funds appropriated by the 72nd U. S. Congress for adult education of the blind, a number of books covering in broad, general lines several phases of Jewish life and thought.
The list of books to be transcribed into braille was prepared by Rabbi Brevis with the assistance of Dr. D. De Sola Pool, Professor Shalom Spiegle, and Rabbi Kiev. The books will be available to all readers of braille in the several distributing libraries of embossed literature in the country after June 30, 1933.
Rabbi Brevis is also in charge of a circulating library of braille books at the N. Y. Guild for the Jewish Blind where a staff of volunteer braillists whom he trained, are at work supplying hand-copied braille books for the use of blind students in the high schools, colleges and universities in the city.
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