David Patterson (historian)

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.[2] 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]

  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. ^ a b "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.