Alona Bach is a historian, actor, playwright, illustrator, translator, teacher, and serial archive-haunter.

She recently defended her PhD in MIT’s Doctoral Program for History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) where her research sits at the intersection of the history of technology and Yiddish studies.

RECENT & UPCOMING PROJECTS

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The Vilna Technicum (CJH)
The Vilna Technicum (CJH)

Written for the Center for Jewish History.

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Electric Yiddishkeit
Electric Yiddishkeit

The Skirball Cultural Center’s 2023–4 Howard I. Friedman Memorial Graduate Essay Prize.

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2022-2023 Translation Fellowship at the Yiddish Book Center
2022-2023 Translation Fellowship at the Yiddish Book Center

Translating Jane Rose’s one-act family drama CRACKED (Nit mit alemen).

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Di zogerin
Di zogerin

Bringing Rokhl Brokhes’ short story to life with the Congress for Jewish Culture.

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Wire in the Garden (Rhodes College)
Wire in the Garden (Rhodes College)

Wire in the Garden debuts at Rhodes College (November 2022).

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