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Subject Guide: Deaf & Hard of Hearing History

Archival and library highlights found at the Center relating to Deaf & HArd of Hearing history, communities, and philanthropy.

Exterior view of the Lexington School for the Deaf, 1940s. I-433. AJHS

Library Materials

Adler, N. (1865). The morning & evening sacrifice : How to be represented in these days ; with special reference to the claims of deaf mutes in the Jewish community ; a sermon delivered in the Great Synagogue, Duke's Place, on Sh.K. P. Va-era R.H. Shevat, 5625 L.F.K., January 28th, 5625. London: Printed by Wertheimer and.

Barash, H. (1991). Our father Abe : The story of a deaf shoe repairman. Madison, Wisconsin: Abar Press.

Biatch, M. (1996). Celebrating Judaism in the home : A manual for deaf Jewish families. Arleta, Calif.: Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf.

Dunai, E. (2002). Surviving in silence : A deaf boy in the Holocaust : The Harry Dunai story. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.

Jacobs, L. (1989). A deaf adult speaks out (3rd ed., rev. and expanded.. ed.). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.

Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf Dumb. (1821). An account of the origin and progress of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb : With a list of the contributors, &c.

Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf Dumb. (1823). Second annual report of the directors of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb : Made to the legislature in obedience to the provisions of the charter.​

Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf Dumb. (1822). A sketch of the origin and progress of the institutions for the instruction of the deaf and dumb in Pennsylvania : Exhibiting succinctly from authentic documents the persevering exertions of the present principal of the Philadelphia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.​

Ryan, D., & Schuchman, John S. (2002). Deaf people in Hitler's Europe. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.​

Schein, J., & Waldman, Lester J. (1985). The deaf Jew in the modern world. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub. House for New York Society for the Deaf.

Shuart, A., & National Congress for Jewish Deaf. (1986). Signs in Judaism : A resource book for the Jewish deaf community. New York, N.Y.: Published for the National Congress of Jewish Deaf by Bloch Pub.

Sidransky, R. (1990). In silence : Growing up hearing in a deaf world (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press.

Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf. (1989). Sidur zeroʻa neṭuyah = Siddur zeroa netuyah = Prayerbook of the outstretched arm. Arleta, Calif.: Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf.