Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov (Hebrew: עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב, [ʕoˈmer ˈbartov]; born 1954) is an Israeli-born historian. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000.[1] Bartov is a noted historian of the Holocaust and is considered one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of genocide.[2][3] The Forward calls him "one of the foremost scholars of Jewish life in Galicia."[4]
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| Born | April 17, 1954 |
| Nationality | Israeli, American |
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| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | Holocaust studies |
The son of Israel Prize-winning author Hanoch Bartov,[5] Bartov was born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford. As a historian, Bartov is most noted for his studies of the German Army in World War II. Bartov has challenged the popular view that the German Army was an apolitical force that had little involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity in World War II. Bartov has argued that the Wehrmacht was a deeply Nazi institution that played a key role in the Holocaust in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union.
Early life and education
Omer Bartov was born in 1954 in Ein HaHoresh, Israel. His father, Hanoch Bartov, was an author and journalist whose parents immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland prior to Hanoch's birth.[6] Bartov's mother immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Buchach, Ukraine in the mid-1930s.[7]
Bartov attended Tichon Hadash in Tel Aviv and served in the Nahal.[citation needed] He attended Tel Aviv University, graduating with a BA in history in 1979. Bartov attended St Antony's College, Oxford for doctoral studies, graduating with a D.Phil in history in 1983.
Career
Bartov was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1989 to 1992. In 1984, he was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Davis Center for Historical Studies.[8]
From 1992 to 2000, Bartov taught at Rutgers University, where he held the Raoul Wallenberg Professorship in Human Rights. At Rutgers, Bartov was also a Senior Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. Bartov joined the faculty of Brown University in 2000.[8] He was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.[9]
Books
- The Eastern Front, 1941–1945: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare, Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
- Historians on the Eastern Front Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's Tragedy, pages 325–345 from Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, Volume 16, 1987
- Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich, Oxford Paperbacks, 1992
- Hitlers Wehrmacht. Soldaten, Fanatismus und die Brutalisierung des Krieges. (German edition) ISBN 3-499-60793-X.
- Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation, Oxford University Press, 1996[10]
- Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity, Oxford University Press, 2002
- Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories, Cornell University Press, 2003
- The "Jew" in Cinema: From The Golem to Don't Touch My Holocaust, Indiana University Press, 2005
- Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine, Princeton University Press, 2007 (ISBN 978-0-691-13121-4). Paperback 2015 (ISBN 9780691166551).[11]
- Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, Simon & Schuster, 2018
- The Butterfly and the Axe, Amsterdam Publishers, 2023
Awards
- 2018: National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category for Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz[12]
Other works
- Celluloid Soldiers in Russia: War, Peace and Diplomacy
Selected honors and awards
- Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California,
- Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, Spring semester 2007
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, (2005)[13]
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (2003–2004)
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, Harvard University (2002–2003)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers (1996–97)
- Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History from the Institute for Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London, for the book Murder in Our Midst (1995)
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Germany and France (1985–86, 1987, 1990, 1994)
- French Government Scholarship at the FIAP Language School in Paris, France (1985)
- Rothschild Foundation Scholarship (Rothschild Fellowship) in support of studies at Oxford University (1981–82)
References
- ^ "Bartov, Omer". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- ^ Brown University German Studies
- ^ Tracing Galicia: A Talk With Omer Bartov, History, By Joshua Cohen, Forward, December 11, 2007
- ^ "ההיסטוריון בעקבות גיא ההריגה: "מצאתי אירועים שלא תועדו באף ספר"". www.maariv.co.il. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ Masalha, Nur (2018-08-15). Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 354. ISBN 978-1-78699-274-1.
- ^ "Omer Bartov – Roth on Wesleyan". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
- ^ a b Bartov, Omer (January 27, 2019). "Curriculum Vitae of Omer Bartov" (PDF).
- ^ "Omer Bartov". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ^ Moses, A. D. (2008-06-28). "Modernity and the Holocaust". Australian Journal of Politics & History. 43 (3): 441–445. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8497.1997.tb01398.x.
- ^ Bartov, Omer. "Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 20, 2011.