A Historian Turns to Literarture: a conversation with Prof. Omer Bartov on his new novel The Butterfly And The Axe (forthcoming by Amsterdam Publishers 2023) 

 

On the Novel: 

Spring 1944. A Jewish family is murdered in a remote Ukrainian village. Who were they? Who were the killers? Three generations later, an Israeli woman and a British man of Ukrainian origin set out to find out how their families were implicated in this crime. They also discover how this untold murder has warped their own lives.

Moderator: Prof. Amos Goldberg 

Tuesday, December 27, 2022 14:30 Room 400,
The Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry