David Patterson

David Patterson holds the Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies in the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, he has published more than 140 articles and chapters on philosophy, literature, Judaism, and Holocaust Studies. His writings have been anthologized, and his more than 30 books include A Genealogy of Evil: Antisemitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihadism (2011); Emil L. Fackenheim: A Jewish Philosopher's Response to the Holocaust (2008), Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of Auschwitz (2006), Wrestling with the Angel (2006), Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought (2005), Along the Edge of Annihilation (1999), Sun Turned to Darkness (1998), and others. He is the editor and translator of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry (2002) and co-editor (with Alan L. Berger) of the Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature (2002).

ARTICLES BY: David Patterson

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How Anti-Semitism Prevents Peace

Despite the obsessive preoccupation with Israeli building activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the greatest obstacle to peace between the Israelis and the...