About David Patterson
Born 1948. David Patterson is an American historian, university teacher, philologist and literary scholar.
David Patterson (born 1948) 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. 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".
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Who is David Patterson?
American historian
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David Patterson was born on 30 September 1948.
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David Patterson is a historian, university teacher, philologist and literary scholar.
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David Patterson is American.
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