Rate My Professor Omer Bartov

His scholarship on cultural representations includes The “Jew” in Cinema: From The Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust (2005). In recent decades, Bartov has focused on interethnic coexistence, violence, and memory in Eastern European borderlands, authoring Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018)—which earned the National Jewish Book Award and the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research—, 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). He has edited significant volumes such as Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands (2013), Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town (2020), and Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2021). Additionally, Bartov published the novel The Butterfly and the Axe in 2023. As a Faculty Fellow at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, he directed a multi-year collaborative project leading to Shatterzone of Empires and heads a student exchange program between Brown University and Hebrew University. His prolific scholarship, translated into numerous languages, establishes him as one of the foremost authorities on the Holocaust and genocide.