Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University and the author, most recently, of Genocide, the Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023), The Butterfly and the Axe. A Novel (2023), Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022), and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018).