Omer Bartov

Omer Bartov
עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב
Bartov in 2022
Born (1954-04-17) April 17, 1954
Ein HaHoresh, Israel
Nationality
  • Israeli
  • American
Alma mater
OccupationHistorian
Known forHolocaust studies

Omer Bartov (Hebrew: עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב [ʔoˈmeʁ ˈbaʁtov]; born 1954) is an Israeli-American historian. He is the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, where he has taught since 2000. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered a leading authority on genocide. The Forward calls him "one of the foremost scholars of Jewish life in Galicia."