Omer Bartov is John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books, including Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2011) and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), which won several prizes and has been translated into several languages.