Prof to lecture on reparations

Professor Gerald D. Feldman will deliver the Grete Berger Sternberg Memorial Lecture on "Reparations, Restitution and Compensation on the Aftermath of the Nazism, 1945-2000." Sponsored each year by the Holocaust Center of Northern California, the lecture takes place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20 at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco.

Feldman is a professor of history and director of the Institute of European Studies at U.C. Berkeley. A frequent lecturer and scholar, Feldman is known as an international expert on compensation and reparations to victims of the Nazi Holocaust.

Feldman holds a doctorate from Harvard University, and was a Berlin Prize Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellow and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Social History, Contemporary European History and German Politics and Society. He is a member of the Advisory Council to the Presidential Commission on Assets in the United States and the Advisory Board of the European Association for Banking History, and is chairman of the Historical Commission of the Bank of Austria.