Work with Blind

Publication Date: July 1915

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Benjamin Bernstein

Research Area: Culture and religion; Population and demographics; Social conditions

Keywords: Disability; Social Services; Communal Organization

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author describes his fledgling organization, the Hebrew Association for the Blind, which was organized in response to the realization that the blind themselves should initiate and direct the movement for their own empowerment. Its mission is to help the Jewish blind become self-supporting. It currently runs a social center, and its other projects concern finding employment and guides, where needed, for the blind and the publication and circulation of Yiddish and Hebrew literature in an appropriate form.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 5:12