Thursday Lunch Club: Paul Bartrop

Title:  “Why Kristallnacht Matters”

Bio:

Professor Paul Bartrop is a multi-award-winning scholar of the Holocaust and genocide. Until December 2020 he was Professor of History and Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, where he is now Professor Emeritus of History. He is also a Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK. He has held numerous other positions including as Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales Canberra, and as Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University, New Jersey.

He is the author, co-author, and editor of some 35 books, the most recent include The Holocaust in 100 Histories (2024); The Routledge History of the First World War (2024); and The Holocaust: Country by Country (2024). His 4 volume work The Holocaust: A Resource and Document Collection (2017), won the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award for 2018 and the AJL Judaica Reference Award in the United States. His book The Holocaust and Australia: Refugees, Rejection, and Memory, has been shortlisted for the Yad Vashem International Holocaust Book of the Year for 2023.

He is a former Vice-President of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association in the United States and is a Past President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies. Dr. Bartrop was a founding member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and was for many years the Australian representative on the International Committee of the Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches. Among other positions he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Holocaust and Genocide Studies.