Hebrew
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: עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב; pronounced oˈmer ˈbartov/nowiki>; born 1954) is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and Professor of German Studies at
Brown University
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.
The son of Israel Prize-winning author
Hanoch Bartov
Hanoch Bartov ( he, חנוך ברטוב, 13 August 1926 – 13 December 2016) was an Israeli author and journalist.
Biography
Hanoch Helfgott (Bartov) was born in Petah Tikva in 1926, a year after his parents immigrated from Poland.http://www.o ...
, Bartov was born in
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
and attended
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
Oxford
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. As a historian, Bartov is most noted for his studies of the German Army in World War II. Bartov has challenged the popular view that the German Army was an apolitical force that had little involvement in war crimes or
crimes against humanity
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in World War II. Bartov has argued that the
Wehrmacht
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was a deeply Nazi institution that played a key role in the
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...
genocide
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. ''
The Forward
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'' calls Bartov "one of the foremost scholars of
Jewish
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 ...
*''The Eastern Front, 1941–1945: German Troops and the Barbarization of Warfare'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
*"Historians on the Eastern Front Andreas Hillgruber and Germany's Tragedy", pages 325–345 from ''Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte'', Volume 16, 1987
*''Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich'', Oxford Paperbacks, 1992
*''Hitlers Wehrmacht. Soldaten, Fanatismus und die Brutalisierung des Krieges''. (German edition) .
*''Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation'', Oxford University Press, 1996
*''Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity'', Oxford University Press, 2002
*''Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories'', Cornell University Press, 2003
*''The "Jew" in Cinema: From The Golem to Don't Touch My Holocaust'', Indiana University Press, 2005
*''Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine'', Princeton University Press, 2007 (). Paperback 2015 ().
*'' Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz'', Simon & Schuster, 2018
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
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, Stanford, California,
* Berlin Prize Fellowship,
American Academy in Berlin
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, Spring semester 2007
* Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
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for University Teachers (1996–97)
*
Fraenkel Prize
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in Contemporary History from the Institute for Contemporary History and Wiener Library, London, for the book ''Murder in Our Midst'' (1995)
* Raoul Wallenberg Professor in Human Rights and Senior Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis,
Rutgers University
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(1992–94)
* Directeur d'études, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France (1990)
* Junior Fellow,
Society of Fellows
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, Harvard University (1989–92)
* French Government Scholarship at the
Bibliothèque Nationale
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, Paris, France (1988)
*
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
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, Germany and France (1985–86, 1987, 1990, 1994)
* French Government Scholarship at the FIAP Language School in Paris, France (1985)
* Visiting Fellow, Davis Center for Historical Studies,
Princeton University
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(1984)
* Rothschild Foundation Scholarship (
Rothschild Fellowship
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) in support of studies at Oxford University (1981–82)
* Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), for work in German archives (1981)
* Research Fellowship, German Historical Institute, London, for work in German archives (1980)
* President's Fellowship,
Tel-Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Loc ...
, Israel, in support of tuition at Oxford University (1980–83)
*
Fulbright Fellowship
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for studies as a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University (1979)
* DAAD Scholarship at the
Goethe Institute
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in Murnau, Bavaria, Germany (1979)
* Certificate of Exceptional Merit from the Rector of Tel-Aviv University, Israel (1978)
* Certificate of Exceptional Merit from the Rector of Tel-Aviv University, Israel (1977)