David Patterson (historian) explained

David Patterson (born 1948)^[1] 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.^[2] 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".^[3]

Works

• Book: Patterson . David . Roth . John K. . Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, And the Holocaust . 2005 . University of Washington Press . 978-0-295-98547-3 . en. ^[4]
• Book: Patterson . David . A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad . 2010 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-139-49243-0 . en. ^[5]
• Book: Patterson . David . Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the Holocaust . 2012 . University of Washington Press . 978-0-295-80316-6 . en. ^{[6] [7]}
• Book: Patterson . David . Genocide in Jewish Thought . 2012 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-107-01104-5 . en. ^{[8] [9]}
• Book: Patterson . David . The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel . 2014 . University Press of Kentucky . 978-0-8131-6149-5 . en.
• Book: Patterson . David . Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Origins . 2015 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-316-23999-5 . en. ^{[10] [11]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Patterson . David . The shriek of silence : a phenomenology of the Holocaust novel . Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky . 27 June 2020 . English . 1992. 9780813117683 .
2. Web site: Faculty - School of Arts and Humanities - The University of Texas at Dallas . www.utdallas.edu . 27 June 2020.
3. Book: Jeremy D. Popkin. History, Historians, and Autobiography. 9 May 2005. University of Chicago Press. 978-0-226-67543-5. 221–.
4. Geddes . Jennifer L. . Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust . The Virginia Quarterly Review . 1 October 2006 . 82 . 4 . 271 . 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 . Review: D. Patterson, Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of Auschwitz . Journal of Jewish Studies . January 2009 . 60 . 1 . 163–165 . 10.18647/2857/JJS-2009 . 0022-2097.
7. Parker . Tam K. . 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 . 5 April 2009 . 23 . 1 . 117–121 . 10.1093/hgs/dcp012 . en . 1476-7937.
8. Greenberg . Gershon . Review of Patterson, David, Genocide in Jewish Thought . May 2013 . H-Judaic, H-Review . en.
9. Geller . J. . 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 . 3 September 2014 . 28 . 2 . 350–353 . 10.1093/hgs/dcu027.
10. Cahan . Jean Axelrad . Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins by David Patterson (review) . Antisemitism Studies . 2017 . 1 . 1 . 207–215 . en . 2474-1817.
11. Tremblay . Frédéric . Anti-Semitism and Its Metaphysical Origins, written by David Patterson . European Journal of Jewish Studies . 5 October 2017 . 11 . 2 . 203–209 . 10.1163/1872471X-11121038.