Omer Bartov

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Omer Bartov
Omer bartov 2014.jpg
Bartov in 2022
Born (1954-04-17) April 17, 1954 (age 70)
Ein HaHoresh, Israel
Nationality
  • Israeli
  • American
Alma mater
OccupationHistorian
Known forHolocaust studies

Omer Bartov (

Galicia."[4]

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 before Hanoch was born.[5] Bartov's mother immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Buczacz, Poland (now Buchach, Ukraine), in the mid-1930s.[6] Bartov fought in the 1973 Yom Kippur War as a company commander, and was wounded in action.[7] He was educated at Tel Aviv University and obtained a PhD from St. Antony's College, Oxford.

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, he 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]

As a historian, Bartov is best known for his studies of the German Army in World War II. He has challenged

the popular view that the German Army was an apolitical force that had little involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity, arguing that the Heer
was a deeply Nazi institution that played a key role in the Holocaust in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union.

Political views

In August 2023, Bartov was one of more than 1,500 U.S., Israeli, Jewish and Palestinian academics and public figures to sign an open letter stating that Israel operates "

Israel's 37th government had brought "a very radical shift", adding, "I am a historian of the 20th century and don’t make analogies lightly", before recounting how the movement of fringe politics into the mainstream in Europe led to fascism, and emphasizing: "This is the current moment in Israel. It's terrifying to see it happening."[12]

Bartov has said that Israel has repeatedly expressed genocidal intent against the

Israel-Hamas war.[13]

Books

Awards

Other works

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)[18]
  • 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

  1. ^ "Bartov, Omer". vivo.brown.edu. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  2. ^ "Bildner Center Event: Omer Bartov". Archived from the original on 2008-05-11. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
  3. ^ Brown University German Studies
  4. ^ Tracing Galicia: A Talk With Omer Bartov, History, By Joshua Cohen, Forward, December 11, 2007
  5. ISBN 978-1-78699-274-1
    .
  6. ^ "Omer Bartov – Roth on Wesleyan". 23 January 2018. Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  7. ^ Chotiner, Isaac. "A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  8. ^ a b Bartov, Omer (January 27, 2019). "Curriculum Vitae of Omer Bartov" (PDF).
  9. ^ "Omer Bartov". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
  10. ^ "Elephant in the room". sites.google.com.
  11. ^ McGreal, Chris (15 August 2023). "US Jews urged to condemn Israeli occupation amid Netanyahu censure". The Guardian.
  12. ^ Tharoor, Ishaan (11 August 2023). "In Israel and the U.S., 'apartheid' is the elephant in the room". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Israel facing genocide allegation at U.N.'s top court: Intent has been expressed "over and over again," says Professor of Genocide Studies". CNN. Retrieved 23 June 2024.
  14. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8497.1997.tb01398.x
    .
  15. ISBN 9780691131214
    . Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  16. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.
  17. ^ "Historian Omer Bartov Wins the Ninth Annual Zócalo Book Prize". zocalopublicsquare.org. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
  18. ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 20, 2011.

External Links

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