Ep. 1- History, Fiction, and Truth with Omer Bartov

Send us a text In his latest book, Omer Bartov notes that “Indicating where the line between truth and fiction lies is difficult, if not impossible, because in certain cases there may be more truth in fiction that in the mere retelling of facts.” In this our first episode of the podcast, we take a look at what happens when an historian turns to writing fiction about the past. This was a really great conversation with Omer Bartov about his new book, the Butterfly and the Axe...