The first literature on sex hygiene to be published in this country in
Yiddish has been issued by the American Society for Sanitary and Moral
Prophylaxis, 105 West 40th Street. Through the generosity of a Hebrew
philanthropic organization in New York city the society has been able to
publish a Yiddish edition of its pamphlet on Health and the Hygiene of
Sex. This new booklet will be distributed through such organizations as
the Educational Alliance, the Hebrew Young Men’s Association, the Hebrew
Educational League and the Hebrew Sheltering Arms. An edition of 5,000
was printed, but in less than a week it was exhausted. Large orders have
been received for subsequent issues. As yet only local Hebrew charities
have been given this pamphlet for distribution.
The same pamphlet in English is being distributed to boys in preparatory
schools and colleges and through Y. M. C. A.’s and boys’ clubs all over
the country at the rate of a thousand topics a month.
The society hopes during the coming year to publish Italian and other
translations of its pamphlet and to issue new pamphlets for special
distribution among settlements and organizations dealing with uneducated
groups of boys and girls.