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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE November 14, 1986 Page 15
History
Naomi R. Adir, a former school teacher and JBI board member, reads from the large-print Torah.
Mrs. Adir is legally blind.
Vision-impaired people benefit
from new easy-to-read Bibles
Continued from page 14
adoption laws, which the Child
Welfare League of America en
dorsed. The Federal Children’s
Bureau adopted her “Standards
for Children’s Institutions.”
The International Save-the-
Child Fund acclaimed her proce
dures for rehabilitating juvenile
delinquents. France used her
“Juvenile Court Handbook” as
the basis for its national system.
The Federal Council of Churches
chose her “Handbook of Stand
ards for Jails” as their corner
stone for national prison reform.
M iss Kaufman also compiled
a survey of crime statistics in
Georgia that was praised by U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Louis
Brandeis, Dean Roscoe Pound
of the Harvard Law School and
the American Institute of Crimi
nal Law and Criminology.
She went on to direct the
Atlanta Family Welfare Society
from 1930-37. During this period
President Herbert Hoover ap
pointed her to his White House
Conference on Child Welfare.
She later managed Atlanta’s
Social Planning Council. Experts
from around the country lauded
her metrowide program of recre
ational facilities and her “Report
of Health and Welfare in DeKalb
and Fulton Counties.”
Throughout her career, Miss
Kaufman maintained an active
role in Atlanta’s Jewish commu
nity. She worked with the Atlanta
Zionist Council and for the At
lanta Section of the National
Council of Jewish Women. She
also gave instruction in citizen
ship to many classes of Jewish
immigrants.
Her faith, indeed, was an asset
to her work. As she explained in
a speech to the NCJW, ‘“Social
work’ is an art and takes skill and
training; but we know it also pre
supposes a certain philosophy of
life. That philosophy the Jewish
people preeminently have. The
supreme importance and dignity
of the human being as such is
fundamental in its teaching, which
says, ‘Man is little lower than the
angels and therefore to be ap
proached with reverence and re
spect.’”
Atlanta named Rhoda Kaufman
its 1944 Woman of the Year in
Welfare Work. Even after offi
cial retirement in 1945, she stayed
busy, publicizing the United Na
tions and its efforts to build
world peace.
When she died in March 1956,
the Atlanta Journal eulogized,
“Her compassion for others stands
as a monument to a life of unsel
fish endeavor.”
Rhoda Kaufman, in short, made
Georgia an early leader in cost-
effective social work.
The Jewish Braille Institute of
America has published an Eng
lish translation of the Five Books
of Moses in large print for visu
ally impaired readers.
Published in five spiral-bound
volumes, the large-print Torah is
now available for free distribu
tion to individuals who are un
able to read standard-size type.
A large-type edition in Hebrew,
also designed for those with vision
problems, is now being typeset in
Israel, complete with vowels and
cantillation marks. Barbara B.
Friedman of New York, is chair
man of the project.
The English edition, totaling
600 pages, follows the Jewish
Publication Society of America’s
1962 translation of the Five Books
of Moses. Special paper was
used to reduce glare, a major
problem for the visually impaired.
The large-print Torah will not be
available for purchase but will be
distributed free to visually im
paired individuals who request
it.
Funds for the project were
raised in a nationwide campaign
sparked by a $75,000 challenge
grant from the Abe Wouk Found
ation, established by novelist
Herman and Mrs. Wouk. The
grant was made in memory of
Wouk’s mother, Esther, who was
served by JBI when she became
severely visually impaired in her
later years.
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