Prof. Omer Bartov

Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.

Educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford, he has written widely on war crimes, interethnic relations, and genocide. Recent books include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), which won the National Jewish Book Award; Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Genocide, The Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023), elected a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.

Bartov’s essays and commentaries on the current crisis in the Middle East have been featured in many American and international outlets. He is presently engaged in two book projects tentatively titled “Israel: What Went Wrong?” and “The Broken Promise: A Personal-Political History of Israel and Palestine.” His novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, was published last year in the United States and Israel.