Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium
Dr. Omer Bartov, Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, will be giving a lecture titled, “Israel: What Went Wrong?” on Tuesday, November 11th from 7-8:30PM in Avery Hall’s Wood Auditorium. This lecture is open to CU/BC affiliates (students, faculty, staff, and alumni).
Omer Bartov is an Israeli-American scholar and Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He has written widely on war crimes, interethnic relations, and genocide. Recent books, published in multiple languages, include Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), which won the National Jewish Book Award, and Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023), named Choice 2024 Outstanding Academic Title. Bartov’s essays and commentaries have been widely featured in national and international magazines and media outlets. His new book, Israel: What Went Wrong?, will be published in April 2026 by FSG in the US and Penguin/Random Books in the UK.
Organized by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race in partnership with the Department of History, Columbia GSAPP, and the European Institute.
