Date: 26 November 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Venue: LI-5401, 5/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Building, City University of Hong Kong
Language: English
Speaker: Professor Omer Bartov (Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University)
Registration:Please complete the online registration form HERE on or before 23 November 2026.
Successful registrants will receive a confirmation email not later than 24 November 2026.
Abstract
This lecture traces the tragic transformation of Zionism from a movement of liberation and emancipation for the Jews of East-Central Europe into an ethnonational state ideology of militarism, expansionism, violence and exclusion, eventually sprouting elements of messianic Jewish-supremacy geared toward ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Biography
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; Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis (2023), named Choice 2024 Outstanding Academic Title; and Israel: What Went Wrong? (2026). Bartov’s essays and commentaries have been widely featured in national and international magazines and media outlets.
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Inquiry：
Department of Chinese and History
Tel.：3442 2054
Email：cah@cityu.edu.hk