Charles Patterson (author)

Charles W. Patterson is an American author and historian, perhaps best known for his books, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond.

Charles Patterson grew up in New Britain, Connecticut, and studied at the Kent School, Kent, Connecticut.^[1]

Patterson was educated at Amherst College from where he graduated in 1958,^[2] and Columbia University, from where he received an MA in English Literature and a PhD in Religion. He later studied at the Yad Vashem Institute for Holocaust Education in Jerusalem.^[1][3]

Political Affairs called Eternal Treblinka, "a wonderful book about terrible subjects".^[4] JVNA called it "very well researched ... written with great sensitivity and compassion".^[5]

Publications

• Anti-Semitism: The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond, Walker & Co, first edition, 1982. ISBN 978-0-80276-470-6
• The Civil Rights Movement (Social Reform Movements), Facts on File, 1995. ISBN 978-0-81602-968-6
• The Oxford 50th Anniversary Book of the United Nations, Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-19508-280-7
• Animal Rights, Backinprint.com, 2000. ISBN 978-0-59509-494-3
• Hafiz Al-Asad of Syria, iUniverse, 2000. ISBN 978-0-59500-412-6
• Marian Anderson, iUniverse, 2000. ISBN 978-0-59509-493-6
• Thomas Jefferson, iUniverse, 2000. ISBN 978-0-59509-589-6
• Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of the Animals and the Holocaust, Lantern Books, first edition, 2002. ISBN 978-1-930-05199-7
• From Buchenwald to Carnegie Hall (co-author with Marian Filar), University Press of Mississippi, first edition, 2002. ISBN 978-1-57806-419-9

See also

• Animal rights and the Holocaust

References