Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov is a scholar I hold in real esteem. As a leading authority on the Holocaust and genocide at Brown University, with a Guggenheim and a Humboldt Prize to his name, he does work that is rarely glamorous but genuinely foundational. To me, historians like him build the quiet bedrock that helps humanity resist repeating its worst chapters. It takes uncommon fortitude to stare directly at the histories most people would rather avoid, year after year. I deeply respect his willingness to engage difficult, painful subjects with rigor and moral seriousness, and I think his scholarship matters more than ever.

Name (English)

Omer Bartov

Name (Japanese)

オメル・バルトフ

Reading

おめる・ばるとふ

Born

April 17, 1954 (age 72)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Horse

Origin

Ein HaHoresh, Israel

Occupation

historian

University

Tel Aviv University

Awards & achievements

• 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship
• Humboldt Research Fellowship
• Humboldt Prize
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2007 Berlin Prize

• Official sitehttps://vivo.brown.edu/display/obartov
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omer%20Bartov
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q929282

Tags

• historian

Last updated

2026-06-21

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