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Lillian Goldman Reading Room
Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute
The Accessible museum: Model programs of accessibility for disabled and older people / American Association of Museums. 1992.
Museums: Opening doors and expanding awareness: national survey of accessibility in museums in the United States / by Mary Ellen Munley, with Jeff Hayward. National Museum of American Art, 1989.
Collection of treatises dealing with the blind / by Siegfried Altmann. Written from 1924-1940. From the Estate of Siegfried Altmann.
Psychological problems of the blind infant / by Siegfried Altmann. In Papers to be presented by the delegates [to the] World Conference On Work for the Blind; supplement to preliminary edition. New York. 1931.
The training of partially sighted children in a school for the blind / by M. E. Frampton and Vita Stein. From The New York Institute for the Education of the Blind; Monograph no. 4. 1936.
Crusader for light: Julius R. Friedlander, founder of the Overbrook School for the Blind, 1832 / by Elisabeth Freund. Dorrance, 1959.
Charity ... the blind / Guild for the Jewish Blind (New York). 1936.
Books for the Adult Blind, including the talking-book machine activity, and, Service for the Blind, from the annual reports / Library of Congress. 1938.
The printing visagraph / by Robert E. Naumberg. Outlook for the Blind, 1931.
Ordinary daylight : Portrait of an artist going blind / by Andrew Potok. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1980.
Blind children / by Israel Zangwill. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1903.
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 / by the Rev. Dr. Nathan Marcs Adler, Chief Rabbi. Printed by Wertheimer and Co.,1865.
Our father Abe: the Story of a deaf shoe repairman / by Harvey L. Barash and Eva Barash Dicker. Abar Press, 1991.
Celebrating Judaism in the home: a Manual for deaf Jewish families / by Rabbi Miriam Biatch. Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf, 1996.
Surviving in silence: a Deaf boy in the Holocaust: the Harry Dunai story / by Eleanor C. Dunai. Gallaudet University Press, 2002.
A deaf adult speaks out / by Leo M. Jacobs. Gallaudet University Press. 1989.
An account of the origin and progress of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: With a list of the contributors / Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 1821.
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 / Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, 1822.
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 and Dumb, 1823.
Deaf people in Hitler's Europe / edited by Donna F. Ryan and John S. Schuchman. Gallaudet University Press, 2002.
The deaf Jew in the modern world / edited by Jerome D. Schein and Lester J. Waldman. Ktav Publishing House for the New York Society for the Deaf, 1985.
Signs in Judaism: a Resource book for the Jewish deaf community / by Adele Kronick Shuart ; illustrated by Ruth E. Peterson. Bloch Publishing Co. for the National Congress of Jewish Deaf, 1986.
In silence: Growing up hearing in a deaf world / by Ruth Sidransky. St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Sidur zeroʻa neṭuyah = Siddur zeroa netuyah = Prayerbook of the outstretched arm / Temple Beth Solomon of the Deaf, 1989.
Judaism and disability: Portrayals in ancient texts from the Tanach through the Bavli / by Judith Z. Abrams. Gallaudet University Press, 1998.
Jewish relational care A-Z: We are our other's keeper / edited by Jack H. Bloom. Haworth Press, 2006.
Forgotten crimes: the Holocaust and people with disabilities / by Suzanne E. Evans. Ivan R. Dee, 2004.
The origins of Nazi genocide: From euthanasia to the final solution / by Henry Friedlander. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Social outsiders in Nazi Germany / edited by Robert Gellately and Nathan Stoltzfus. Princeton University Press, 2001.
Halacha, medical science, and technology: Perspectives on contemporary Halacha issues / by Faitel Levin. Maznaim, 1987.
Hitler's unwanted children: Children with disabilities, orphans, juvenile delinquents and non-conformist young people in Nazi Germany / by Sally Rogow. 1998.
Journals in Yiddish
Der Idisher Krigs-Invalid Almanakh. Riga: Fareyniḳter Balṭisher Idisher Ḳrigs-Invalidn-Fareyn.
Yidisher Invalid. Munich: Tsenṭraler Yidisher Invalidn-Farband in der Ameriḳaner Zone.
Journals in German
Journals in Polish
Journals in English
National Jewish Council for the Disabled (journal). New York: National Jewish Council.
The New York Guild for the Jewish Blind (journal). New York: Guild.
The Jewish Braille Review. New York: Jewish Braille Institute of America.
Canadian Council of the Blind. (1948). The CCB Outlook.
Journals in Hebrew and Russian
Ḳol Nekhe Milḥamah. Tel-Aviv: Irgun Nekhe Ha-milḥamah Ba-Natsim.