Omer Bartov

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Omer Bartov (2014)

Omer Bartov (* 1954 in Israel) is a professor of European history and German studies at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Iceland , United States . Bartov is considered one of the world's leading historians in genocide research and is the author of numerous books on the subject.

Youth and education

Omer Bartov was born in Israel in 1954 and grew up there. After completing his schooling, he joined the Israeli military and was promoted to officer in 1973. After four years he quit military service and began studying history at Tel Aviv University , graduating summa cum laude in 1979 . Then Bartov continued his studies at St Antony's College in Oxford , which he finished in 1983 with a doctorate on the eastern campaign of the Wehrmacht .

Research and teaching

After completing his studies, Bartov first taught at the American universities in Princeton and Harvard . He then moved to the Military History Research Office in Freiburg as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in 1985 , where he met Manfred Messerschmidt . The collaboration with Messerschmidt and especially his study The Wehrmacht and the Nazi State shaped Bartov in his further work. Today Professor Bartov researches and teaches at Brown University, Rhode Island.

Bartov also initially concentrated his own research on the coordination of the German Wehrmacht in the Third Reich , before he dealt with the war crimes of the Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe . He later examined links between the effects of World War I and the racist crimes of World War II, as well as the history and background of the Holocaust .

Bartov was working on a project (working title Buczacz: The Life and Death of a Multiethnic Town ) with the aim of analyzing group dynamic processes that underlie ethnically motivated atrocities. He chose the town of Butschatsch as a research object because Nazi Germany and later Ukrainian nationalists, among others, committed ethnic cleansing here . In 2007 his book Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia was published in Present-Day Ukraine .

Scholarships and Awards

Omer Bartov has received various grants and awards due to his academic achievements. These were among others:

  • Appointment to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
  • Fellow at the Center for Advanced Behavioral Research in Stanford , California
  • Berlin Prize Scholarship from the American Academy in Berlin (2007)
  • John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004)
  • Radcliffe Institute Fellow, Harvard University (2002–2003)
  • Research grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (1996–1997)
  • Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History of the Institute for Contemporary History (1995)
  • Directeur d'études at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme , Paris (1990)

Publications (selection)

  • The Eastern Front, 1941-1945. German troops and the barbarization of warfare. 2nd ed., Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001. ISBN 0-333-94944-7
  • Historians on the Eastern Front - Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's Tragedy , pages 325–345 in the Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History , 16th edition, 1987.
  • Murder in our midst. The Holocaust, industrial killing, and representation . New York; Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-509847-1
  • Hitler's Wehrmacht. Soldiers, fanaticism and the brutalization of war (original title: Hitler's Army by Karin Miedler and Thomas Pfeiffer). Rowohlt TB, Reinbek near Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-499-60793-X .
  • Mirrors of Destruction. War, genocide, and modern identity . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-507723-7
  • Germany's War and the Holocaust. Disputed histories . Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8014-8681-5
  • The Holocaust as 'Leitmotif' of the Twentieth Century . In: Contemporary History . Volume 31, No. 5, (2004), pp. 315–326.
  • The 'Jew' in Cinema. From 'The Golem' to 'Don't touch my Holocaust' . Bloomington, Ind .: Indiana Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN 0-253-21745-8
  • Erased. Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine . Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-691-13121-4 . Paperback (2015) ISBN 978-0-691-16655-1 .
  • Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz. Simon & Schuster, New York 2018. 400 p. ISBN 1-4516-8453-3 , ISBN 978-1-4516-8453-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.brown.edu/Departments/German_Studies/people/facultypage.php?id=1106970215
  2. ↑ http://www.konservativ.de/wma/ow_dokum.htm
  3. ↑ http://www.brown.edu/Departments/German_Studies/people/facultypage.php?id=1106970215
  4. ↑ Full text as PDF available at ANNO - Historical Austrian Newspapers and Magazines online ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online
personal data
SURNAME Bartov, Omer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Israel