Leonard Barkan, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Comparative Literature, completed his newest book, Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion (University of Chicago Press, 2016), on sabbatical during 2014-15, while teaching at Humboldt University in Berlin, and at Harvard University’s I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Part history and part travel companion, Berlin for Jews shows how the city’s long Jewish heritage, despite the atrocities of the Nazi era, has left an inspiring imprint on the vibrant metropolis of today.
In the photo above, the author contemplates the memorial at Track 17, where markers state the dates and numbers of Jews transported by railcars from Berlin to concentration camps in the East. (Photo by Nick Barberio, Office of Communications)
