Bjarte Bruland (born 11 April 1969) is a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

. He has done research on the deportations and extermination of the

Norwegian Jews The history of Jews in Norway dates back to the 1400s. Although there were very likely Jewish merchants, sailors and others who entered Norway during the Middle Ages, no efforts were made to establish a Jewish community. Through the early mod ...

during

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. Bjarte Bruland was a member of the Skarpnes commission in the period 1996–97. He was the director of the

Jewish museum in Trondheim Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

from 2016 to 2017. While finishing his doctoral thesis, he was the chief curator at the

Jewish Museum in Oslo The Oslo Jewish Museum () aims at informing about Jews in Norway. It was established as a foundation in 2003, supported by the Det mosaiske trossamfunn and Oslo City Museum. The museum was officially opened by Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway on Se ...

Works

* ''Forsøket på å tilintetgjøre de norske jødene'' Hovedfagsoppgave ved Universitetet i Bergen 1995 * ''The Reisel/Bruland report on the confiscation of Jewish property'' 1997 * ''Holocaust i Norge'' 2002 Online editio

* ''Det norske holocaust : jødedeportasjonen'' 2003

References

1969 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian historians 21st-century Norwegian historians {{Norway-historian-stub