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Voices on War and Genocide - by Omer Bartov (Hardcover)

Voices on War and Genocide - by  Omer Bartov (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed <em>Anatomy of a Genocide</em>, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p> <em>"</em>Voices on War and Genocide <em>assembles three extraordinarily rich personal accounts covering different periods and aspects of the history of the Galician town and region of Buczacz. Such narratives are extremely rare; even rarer are ones that are as informative and illuminating as these three."</em> <strong>- Thomas Kühne</strong>, Clark University</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p> <strong>Omer Bartov</strong> is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. He is the author of <em>Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz</em> (2018) along with several other well-regarded scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including <em>Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories</em> (2013) and <em>Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine</em> (2015).</p>

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