Open Wounds: The Crisis of Jewish Thought in the Aftermath of the HolocaustIn this book, David Patterson sets out to describe why Jews must live but especially think in a way that is distinctly Jewish. For Patterson, the primary responsibility of post Holocaust Jewish thought is to avoid thinking in the same categories that led to the attempted extermination of the Jewish people. The Nazis, he says, were not anti Semitic because they were racists; they were racists because they were anti Semitic, and their anti Semitism was