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…
