Ben Barkow
Encyclopedia
Ben Barkow is the director of the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History
and writer.
Barkow was born in Berlin
but lived in London from the age of four. He studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and at University College London
. After employment as a researcher at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, he started to work for the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History and is today its director. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Renaissance
magazine.
Wiener Library
The Wiener Library is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communities and governments worldwide about the persecution of the Jews under the Nazis, it was transformed into a...
and writer.
Barkow was born in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
but lived in London from the age of four. He studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic and at University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
. After employment as a researcher at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, he started to work for the Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History and is today its director. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Jewish Renaissance
Jewish Renaissance
Jewish Renaissance is a quarterly cultural magazine, founded in 2001, covering Jewish culture, arts and communities in Britain and beyond. It is published and edited by Janet Levin.-Description:...
magazine.
Publications
Barkow is the author or editor of the books:- Alfred Wiener and the Making of the Holocaust Library (1997) (ISBN 0-85303-328-5)
- Testaments of the Holocaust, series 1 – 3 (editor) (1998–2000)
- Philipp Manes, Als ob’s ein Leben wär: Tatsachenbericht Theresienstadt 1942-1944 (editor with Klaus Leist) (2005)
- Novemberpogrom 1938: Die Augenzeugenberichte der Wiener Library, (with Raphel Gross and Michael Lenarz). London (2008)
- Philipp Manes, As Though it were a Life. (with Klaus Leist, in preparation)