Anti-Semitism and its Metaphysical Origins

David Patterson holds the Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies at the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas. A winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the Koret Jewish Book Award, he has published more than thirty books and 150 articles and book chapters. His most recent books include Genocide in Jewish Thought (Cambridge, 2012), A Genealogy of Evil: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad (Cambridge, 2010), 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), Along the Edge of Annihilation (1999), and Sun Turned to Darkness (1998). He is the editor and translator of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry (2002) and the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature (with Alan L. Berger, 2002).