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Electrical Engineering in Yiddish: The Vilna Technicum (and Beyond)

By Alona Bach, Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Short-Term Graduate Public History Fellow

Electrical Engineering in Yiddish: The Vilna Technicum (and Beyond)

“Up to this point, there has not been a single book about electricity in Yiddish, aside from a few small pamphlets,” declared the engineer Israel Okun in January 1922. It was a bold, frank introduction to his new Yiddish translation of…

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Xavier High School Students Visit Center for Jewish History

This blog post originally appeared in the Xavier ENews, used with permission.

On April 21, two sections of the senior World Religions elective
visited the Center for Jewish History, located at 15 West 16th Street—right
across the street from Xavier. All students received two tours of the
museum: one…

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