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Anatomy of a Genocide

Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town called Buczacz is a 2018 book by historian Omer Bartov exploring ethnic relations between Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews in the town of Buczacz (now Buchach, Ukraine) with a focus on the Holocaust.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town called Buczacz
AuthorOmer Bartov
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory
Published2018 (Simon & Schuster)
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication placeUnited States
ISBN1451684533

Background

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Bartov in 2014

The author, Omer Bartov, is a professor of European history at Brown University.[13] His mother was raised in the town of Buczacz, then part of Poland, in the interwar era,[14] and emigrated to Israel before the war; the rest of her family was murdered during the Holocaust.[13] Bartov began work on the book in the mid-1990s after interviewing his mother and realizing that genocide "was determined not only by the encounter between external killers and local residents, but also by the existing social fabric long before the arrival of the génocidaires".[14] While writing the book, he ended up with too much material and decided to split the project into two books, one that focused on the experiences of those who lived in Buczacz 1848–1914 and later emigrated, which he plans to publish separately.[14]

Publication history

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The book was published in English by Simon & Schuster in 2018.[14] In 2019, the book was published in Polish translation by Wydawnictwo Czarne [pl].[15] In 2020, the book was published in Hebrew translation by Am Oved.[16] In 2021, the book was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in German translation.[17]

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Reception

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Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe states that Bartov wrote "an important and in many ways innovative study" that elucidated the Holocaust in Galicia. "The combination of the micro-historic approach with the history of a town and the concentration on everyday life and intimate facets of the Holocaust revises our understanding of how the genocide actually took place on the local level and what it caused."[18]

Historian Havi Dreifuss states

Anatomy of a Genocide artistically describes the way in which ethnic relations have been interwoven over the years, and it stresses the tensions that led to their tearing apart. By this, Bartov succeeds in placing Holocaust research within the scope of World War II and various genocides, without one story blurring the other. On the contrary, the joint discussion contributes both to the understanding of the fate of the Jews in Buczacz and to the construction of other groups living alongside them.[19]

Awards

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The book received the National Jewish Book Award for the best 2018 book on the Holocaust.[20]

References

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  1. ^ Kühne, Thomas (2018). "Anatomy of a Genocide". Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  2. ^ Aleksiun, Natalia (2018). "On Humanizing Victims and Perpetrators of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (4): 645–649. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1527094. S2CID 80898156.
  3. ^ Jockusch, Laura (2018). "Intimate Enemies: Patterns of Interethnic Violence and the Holocaust in Local Perspective". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (4): 637–644. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1527093. S2CID 81095035.
  4. ^ Frydel, Tomasz (2018). "The Ongoing Challenge of Producing an Integrated Microhistory of the Holocaust in East Central Europe". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (4): 624–631. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1527091. S2CID 81919464.
  5. ^ Khiterer, Victoria (2020). "Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, by Omer Bartov, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2018, 416 pages, $18.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1451684537". Nationalities Papers. 48 (2): 422–424. doi:10.1017/nps.2019.24. S2CID 213735740.
  6. ^ Sliwa, Joanna (2019). "Sliwa on Bartov, 'Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz'". H-Net.
  7. ^ Shaw, Martin (2019). "Review of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz". Antisemitism Studies. 3 (1): 181–188. doi:10.2979/antistud.3.1.11. ISSN 2474-1809.
  8. ^ Bartov, Omer (2019). "Response to Ab Imperio Forum". Ab Imperio. 2019 (2): 157–183. doi:10.1353/imp.2019.0036. S2CID 204613165.
  9. ^ Moskalets, Vladyslava (2019). "History as a Story without an End". Ab Imperio. 2019 (2): 115–122. doi:10.1353/imp.2019.0034. S2CID 204624826.
  10. ^ Hájková, Anna (2019). "Omer Bartov. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town called Buczacz. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018. Pp. 416". Austrian History Yearbook. 50: 256–257. doi:10.1017/S0067237819000523. S2CID 150762966.
  11. ^ Kassow, Samuel D (2019). "Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz Omer Bartov". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 33 (3): 429–432. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcz046.
  12. ^ Laitila, Teuvo (2018). "Local history of Jewish-Gentile relations". Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies. 29 (2): 55–57. doi:10.30752/nj.74139. S2CID 165632021.
  13. ^ a b Roth, Michael S. (19 January 2018). "Review: 'Anatomy of a Genocide' Reveals There Was Always a Choice". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  14. ^ a b c d Bartov, Omer (2018). "Anatomy of a Genocide Forum". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (4): 650–658. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1527095. S2CID 81571334.
  15. ^ Łosińska, Ewa (12 December 2019). ""Anatomia pewnego ludobójstwa. Życie i śmierć Buczacza"". Dzieje.pl. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  16. ^ ברטוב, עמר (2020). אנטומיה של רצח עם: חייה ומותה של עיירה ושמה בוצ'אץ' (in Hebrew). עם עובד. ISBN 978-965-13-2800-8.
  17. ^ Bartov, Omer (2021). Anatomie eines Genozids: Vom Leben und Sterben einer Stadt namens Buczacz (in German). Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 978-3-633-76867-7.
  18. ^ Rossoliński-Liebe, Grzegorz (2018). "Eastern Galicia and the Anatomy of a Genocide". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (4): 632–636. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1527092. S2CID 80721766.
  19. ^ Dreifuss, Havi (2019). "Omer Bartov. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz; Barbara Engelking. Such a Beautiful Sunny Day . . . : Jews Seeking Refuge in the Polish Countryside, 1942–1945". The American Historical Review. 124 (3): 1029–1033. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhz411.
  20. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.

Further reading

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Non-English reviews
Related book
  • Bartov, Omer (2020). Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78920-719-4.
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