The first French-Hebrew prayer book ever to be transcribed into Braille has been prepared by the Jewish Braille Institute of America for a blind young woman of Paris, it was announced today by Mrs. Louis J. Bieber, president of the Institute. Transcription of the one volume prayer book required the production of five large Braille volumes.
This unique Braille prayer book will enable Mrs. Jeannie Lecat, for whom it was prepared free of charge, to take part in religious services with sighted members of her synagogue. It employs the International Hebrew Braille Alphabet created under the sponsorship of the Jewish Braille Institute. Transcription of the work into Braille was done by hand by Mrs. Sylvan Rosoff of Boston, Mass., co-chairman of the Institute’s Hebrew Braille Committee for New England.
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