Dr. Omer Bartov

Biography

Omer Bartov is the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He was born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. His early research focused on Nazi indoctrination and Wehrmacht crimes during World War II, culminating in significant publications such as 'Eastern Front 1941-45' (1985) and 'Hitler's Army' (1991). He has explored the nexus of total war and genocide in works like 'Murder in the Midst' (1996), 'Mirrors of Destruction' (2000), and 'Germany's War and the Holocaust' (2003). His studies have recently turned to interethnic relations in the borderlands of Eastern Europe, leading to significant books like 'Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine' (2007) and 'Anatomy of Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz' (2018). Bartov's scholarship has received numerous accolades, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Yad Vashem International Book Prize. He continues to contribute to the field with upcoming works, including 'Genocide, Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History Crisis' (2023). He is widely recognized as a leading authority on genocide.

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