Professor Omer Bartov

Professor Bartov's office is in the History Department (Peter Green House) on Angell Street in Providence. 

His office hours are on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 2:30 in his office (305 Peter Green House)

Professor Bartov is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on German history, the Holocaust, and genocide. He is the author of six books on such wide-ranging topics as The "Jew" in Cinema: From The Golem to Don't Touch My Holocaust (Indiana, 2005), Germany's War and the Holocaust (Cornell, 2003), Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (Oxford, 2000), Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (Oxford, 1996), Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (Oxford, 1991; translated into French, German, Polish, and Hebrew), and The Eastern Front 1941-45: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare (St. Martin's Press, 1986; reprinted in 2nd paperback edition with new introduction in 2001, translated into Italian). In addition to three volumes he edited and co-edited, including The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath (Routledge, 2000) and In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century (with Phyllis Mack, Berghahn, 2001), Professor Bartov has contributed over 60 articles and chapters to scholarly anthologies, distinguished periodicals in his field, and such esteemed popular publications as the New Republic and Tikkun, whose topics range from military history and studies on war trauma and memory to questions of Holocaust representation in literature and film.  Beyond his original work, he has reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review and the Times Literary Supplement among others and currently serves as the series editor of Studies on War and Genocide at Berghahn Books, in which seven volumes have appeared so far.


A recipient of Guggenheim and NEH fellowships as well as numerous other fellowships sponsored by the German and French governments, including Germany's most prestigious Humboldt Fellowship, and a former member of Harvard University’s Society of Fellows, Professor Bartov has given invited lectures (or series of lectures) at Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, Oxford University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania as well as many other universities in Israel, England, France, and Germany.  Professor Bartov also hosted an organizational workshop at the Watson Institute in May 2003 that initiated a three-year international collaborative research project, “Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires since 1848,” bringing together institutes in Poland, Germany, France, and the United States.

This biography was compiled from various online sources, including the web site of the Brown University Department of History and the web site of the Watson Institute at Brown University.