David Patterson

Dr. David Patterson is a winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award and is a member of the World Union of Jewish Studies and the Association for Jewish Studies. He has delivered lectures at numerous universities and community organizations throughout the world. Patterson has published more 30 books and more than 140 articles and chapters in journals and books in philosophy, literature, Judaism, Holocaust and education. Patterson is the editor and translator of the English edition of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry(2002), and he is a major contributor and co-editor (with Alan L. Berger and Sarita Cargas) of theEncyclopedia of Holocaust Literature (2002), as well as co-editor (with John K. Roth) of Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust (2005) and After-Words: Post-Holocaust Struggles with Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Justice (2004). He has also translated literary works by Ivan Turgenev, F. M. Dostoevsky, and Leo Tolstoy. Patterson’s most recent book is Genocide in Jewish Thought (2012).

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