Auction 11
Lot 326:
The letter is signed by the founders, Nachum Natansohn and a stamped signature of Rabbi Abraham Moshe Luntz and others. The Jewish Institute for the Blind is a Jerusalem institution to educate and to rehabilitate blind youth and adults. The institute was founded in 1902 after a blind boy who did belong in any educational or occupational framework was injured next to the home of the merchant Rabbi Nachum Nathansohn. The incident brought him, Rabbi Haim Michlin, Rabbi Menachem Wolfensohn, Rabbi Abraham Moshe Lunz (who was himself blind) and Dr. Gershon Yitzhak Krishavsky to found an educational and occupational framework for blind children, so that they would benefit from education and would not wander in the streets. Since 1932 the institute is housed in Degel Reuven Street in the neighbourhood of Kiryat Moshe in Jerusalem.
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