Born in 1902 in the shtetl Nadezhnoe, in the district of Mariupol, Ukraine, he graduated from Donetsk Mining Institute in 1927. For several years he taught Electrical Engineering, and in 1940 earned his PhD. In 1958 he was arrested (together with Shimon Podolsky, Dora Kustanowich and Baruch Podolsky) for having Israeli publications in his possession and was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. Having spent 2 years in the camps of Mordovia, he was released in 1960, after which he taught Hebrew, getting permission to leave the USSR in 1971 when he and his family went to Israel. From 1971 till 1981 he taught electrical engineering in the Holon Institute of Technology, wrote several textbooks on electrical engineering in Hebrew and also wrote a Hebrew-Russian Electrotechnical Dictionary. He died in October, 1982 and was buried in Holon. The Hebrew-Russian Electrotechnical Dictionary was published posthumously.
The information about Yosef Kamen was provided by his daughter Lidia Podolsky (Kamen).
