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Jane O. Newman is Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies at the University of California, Irvine. At the Academy, she is finishing her book on the German-Jewish scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), titled “Auerbach’s Worlds.” Auerbach belonged to a generation of German-Jewish scholars whose work, she argues, became the foundation of most humanistic disciplines in the United States.