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Dr. David Patterson
Bornblum Judaic Studies Program
301 Mitchell
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152
(901) 678-2919
dapttrsn@memphis.edu
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Born in 1948 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, David
Patterson is married to Gerri Patterson and has two daughters:
Miriam, age 24, and Rachel, age 14. He received a B.A. (1972)
in philosophy from the University of Oregon and went on to
earn an M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1978) in comparative literature
from the same university. In 1990 he converted to Judaism.
Dr. Patterson currently holds the Bornblum Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies
at The University of Memphis and is Director of the University’s Bornblum Judaic
Studies Program. He has taught at Oklahoma State University and the University of
Oregon. He has served as the Sutton Chair in the Humanities at the University of
Oklahoma and as a guest professor at Pepperdine University. He has taught courses on
Israel, Jewish thought, the Holocaust, Judaism, ethics, masterworks of philosophy and
literature, Russian literature, and others. An active 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 United States and
Canada, as well as in Oxford, Berlin, Moscow, and Jerusalem. He is also a consultant to the Philadelphia Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a participant in the Goldner Symposium on the Holocaust, a member of the Advisory Board for the Annual Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust, and a member of the Scholars’ Platform for the Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Cambridge, England.
Dr. Patterson has published more than one hundred articles and chapters in
journals and books in philosophy, literature, Judaism, Holocaust, and education. His own books include Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary (1999; winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for Jewish
Thought/Philosophy); Sun Turned to Darkness: Memory and Recovery in the Holocaust
Memoir (1998), The Greatest Jewish Stories Ever Told (1997), When Learned Men
Murder (1996), Exile: Alienation in Modern Russian Letters (1995; winner of Choice
Award), Pilgrimage of a Proselyte: From Auschwitz to Jerusalem (1993), The Shriek of
Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel (1992), In Dialogue and Dilemma
with Elie Wiesel (1991), Literature and Spirit (1988; first runner-up MMLA Book
Award), The Affirming Flame (1988; winner of Choice Award), and Faith and
Philosophy (1982). He is the editor and translator of the English edition of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry (2002), and he is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of
Holocaust Literature (2002).
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Topics - Holocaust
Religious, theological, and metaphysical dimensions
Uniqueness and universality of the event
Novels, diaries, memoirs, and literary response to the event
Implications for Jewish religious and secular life
Relationship between Israel and the event
Ethical issues during and after the event
Contribution of German philosophy to the event
The future of post-Holocaust Jewish thought
Other Topics in Judaica and Judaism
Israeli/Arab Conflict
Judaism (holy texts, conversion issues, religious texts, religious concepts, holy
days, sacred tradition)
Jewish thought
Jewish history
Jewish-Christian relations
Jewish literature, including stories and storytelling
Jewish education
Jewish social and cultural issues (family, multiculturalism, sexuality,
intermarriage, marriage, secularism)
higher education (what is higher in higher education, essence of education, Jewish
views on education: chinukh)
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