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David Patterson (born 1948) is a historian and professor at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas. Patterson's areas of expertise are Holocaust, Jewish Thought, Anti-Semitism and Israel. He is the Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies. Patterson is author of a study of Holocaust memoir literature and said that reading of first person testimonials has a function, the reader "must become not an interpreter of texts but a mender of the world, a part of the recovery that this memory demands".

Works

• Patterson, David; Roth, John K., eds. (2005). Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, And the Holocaust. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-98547-3.
• Patterson, David (2010). A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49243-0.
• Patterson, David (2012). Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0-295-80316-6.
• Patterson, David (2012). Genocide in Jewish Thought. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01104-5.
• Patterson, David (2014). The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-6149-5.
• Patterson, David (2015). Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Origins. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-23999-5.

References

1. Patterson, David (1992). The shriek of silence : a phenomenology of the Holocaust novel. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813117683. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
2. ^ "Faculty - School of Arts and Humanities - The University of Texas at Dallas". www.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
3. Jeremy D. Popkin (9 May 2005). History, Historians, and Autobiography. University of Chicago Press. pp. 221–. ISBN 978-0-226-67543-5.
4. Geddes, Jennifer L. (1 October 2006). "Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 82 (4): 271. ISSN 0042-675X.
5. Silverburg, Sanford R. "A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad." Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2011, p. 109+.
6. Nathan, Emmanuel (January 2009). "Review: D. Patterson, Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of Auschwitz". Journal of Jewish Studies. 60 (1): 163–165. doi:10.18647/2857/JJS-2009. ISSN 0022-2097.
7. Parker, Tam K. (5 April 2009). "Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, and: Wrestling with the Angel: Toward a Jewish Understanding of the Nazi Assault on the Name (review)". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 23 (1): 117–121. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcp012. ISSN 1476-7937.
8. Greenberg, Gershon (May 2013). "Review of Patterson, David, Genocide in Jewish Thought". H-Judaic, H-Review. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
9. Geller, J. (3 September 2014). "Genocide in Jewish Thought, David Patterson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), xii + 252 pp., hardcover $95.00, paperback (print on demand) $24.99". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 28 (2): 350–353. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcu027.
10. Cahan, Jean Axelrad (2017). "Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins by David Patterson (review)". Antisemitism Studies. 1 (1): 207–215. ISSN 2474-1817.
11. Tremblay, Frédéric (5 October 2017). "Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins, written by David Patterson". European Journal of Jewish Studies. 11 (2): 203–209. doi:10.1163/1872471X-11121038.

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