Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University and the author of Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis. (November 2023)

An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory

Appealing to the memory of the Holocaust obscures our understanding of the antisemitism Jews face today and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel-Palestine.

November 20, 2023

On Holocaust Analogies

The Museum’s decision to completely reject drawing any possible analogies to the Holocaust, or to the events leading up to it, is fundamentally ahistorical. It makes learning from the past almost impossible.

July 1, 2019

An Alternative Future: An Exchange

December 4, 2003 issue

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