David PattersonDavid Patterson holds the Bornblum Chair in Judaic Studies at The University of Memphis. A winner the Koret Jewish Book Award, he has published more than two dozen books, including Open Wounds, Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought, Along the Edge of Anihilation, Sun Turned to Darkness, When Learned Men Murder , Pilgrimage of a Proselyte , The Shriek of Silence (1992), In Dialogue and Dilemma with Elie Wiesel , and others. He is the editor and translator of the English edition of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Holocaust Literature. Read More Read Less