Publication and shipment of nine Hebrew “Talking Books,” the second set of long-playing recording of full-length Hebrew books ever recorded, was announced here today by Mrs. Shoshana Shochett, blind executive director of the American Committee for the Central Library for the Blind in Israel.
“This has been made possible only through the humanitarian understanding and generosity of Solomon Petchers, president, and Sol Ash, vice-president of the American Committee,” Mrs. Shochett said. Five Hebrew Braille books and 20 record players specially built for Israel’s electrical system were also shipped with the recordings.
Mrs. Shochett said that the success of last year’s experimental recording of the first six Hebrew “Talking Books” “so greatly exceeded expectations” that the American Committee immediately began to record the second group of nine books. “The books are designed to meet a vital need of the more than one thousand Israeli blind,” Mrs. Shochett said.
The titles, in editions of 10 to 20 copies each, are: “The Twelve Prophets” and “First Samuel” and “Second Samuel” of the Hebrew Scriptures; “Israeli Children’s Stories,” “The Downward Slope,” by David Shacham; “Anthology of Israeli Poems;” “Hebrew Story Anthology;” “A Thousand and One Nights,” translated by J. J. Rivlin;” “The Conflicts of Man” by Judah Burla, and “The Travels of Benjamin the Third”, by Mendele Mocher Sforim.
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