Controversial American Animal Rights / Holocaust Book Published in Germany
"Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka" ("For the Animals Every Day is Treblinka")--the German edition of the highly acclaimed American book "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" by Dr. Charles Patterson--has just been published in Germany. It follows publications last year in Italy, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
(PRWEB) August 20, 2004 -- "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and
the Holocaust" (New York: Lantern Books, 2002)--the groundbreaking book by
historian and Holocaust educator Charles Patterson, Ph.D.--is fast becoming an
international sensation, having just been published in Germany by
Zweitausendeins in Frankfurt am Main.
Two years after its publication in
the United States it has already been translated into five languages (Italian,
Polish, Czech, German, and Croatian) with more publishers around the world
considering it for publication.
The book's title comes from the Yiddish
writer and Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer, to whom the book is dedicated.
He was the first major modern author to describe the exploitation and slaughter
of animals in terms of the Holocaust. "In relation to them, all people are
Nazis," he wrote, "for animals it is an eternal Treblinka." (Treblinka was a
Nazi death camp north of Warsaw.)
Eternal Treblinka examines the common
roots of animal and human oppression and the similarities between how the Nazis
treated their victims and how human society treats the animals it slaughters for
food.
The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as
the "master species" and how it came to dominate the earth and its other
inhabitants. The second part examines the industrialization of slaughter (of
both animals and humans) in modern times, while the last part of the book
profiles Holocaust-connected Jewish and German animal advocates, including Isaac
Bashevis Singer himself.
The Foreword is by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, the
daughter of Holocaust survivors and a former attorney for People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals (PETA).
Almost immediately after Lantern Books
published the book in 2002, it began attracting the attention of foreign
publishers, and soon translations were underway.
In April, 2003, the
Roman publishing house of Editori Riuniti published the Italian edition
(Un'eterna Treblinka), and the following month “Vega!POL” published the Polish
edition (Wieczna Treblinka).
In September, 2003, the Publishing House
Prah in Prague published the Czech edition (Vecna Treblinka), which has been
reviewed favorably by various leading publications, including the
literature/history/arts magazine ALTERNATIVA, the quarterly DOKORAN, a bulletin
of Czech Writers' Guild, and the LITERARNI NOVINY, the most important and widely
read literary newspaper in the Czech Republic.
Eternal Treblinka has been
translated into Croatian and will soon be published by the Genesis publishing
house in Zagreb.
Publishers in Spain, The Netherlands, Norway, Chile,
India, Israel, Romania, and Russia are also reviewing the book for possible
publication.
At this fall's Frankfurt Book Fair (Oct. 6-11) the foreign
rights for Eternal Treblinka will be offered at the booth of American agent Bob
Erdmann (Hall 8.0 / Stand N-929).
What They're Saying--
"I urge
you to read ETERNAL TREBLINKA and think deeply about its important message. "
--Dr. Jane Goodall
"Compelling, controversial, iconoclastic...strongly
recommended...a unique contribution." --Midwest Book Review
"ETERNAL
TREBLINKA should be on every list of essential reading for an informed
citizenry...for the compelling comprehensiveness of the life-and-death story it
tells." --National Jewish Post & Opinion
"The whole effect is a very
powerful document...No one who reads this book will fail to be moved."
--Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals
"A must read! -- how
mistreatment of animals leads to the dehumanization and extermination of people
as 'mere animals.' Well-written and respectful of both Judaism and the
Holocaust." --Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
"There are good
books...entertaining, useful, informative; great books...whose message reveals a
fundamental truth previously unknown or overlooked; and important books...that
can save lives and ameliorate suffering: ETERNAL TREBLINKA is all three."
--Satya Magazine, New York City
"The moral challenge posed by ETERNAL
TREBLINKA turns it into a must for anyone who seeks to delve into the universal
lesson of the Holocaust." --Maariv (Israeli newspaper)
"Important and
timely...written with great sensitivity and compassion...I hope that ETERNAL
TREBLINKA will be widely read." --Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust
publication)
"Every so often a book is written that has the potential to
make an incredible difference. ETERNAL TREBLINKA is one such book." --N. Glenn
Perrett
"Thorough and thought-provoking book" --Ha'aretz (Israeli
newspaper)
"It is seldom that such a comprehensive work of scholarship
springs from a heart of compassion in the service of a noble and necessary idea.
All the ingredients of your thesis--that the oppression of animals serves as the
model for all other forms of oppression--have been available to thinking people
for generations, but it remained for you to pull them together." --Helen Weaver,
author of THE DAISY SUTRA
"Powerful, moving, gut-wrenching,
brilliant--destined to be a classic" --Aviva Cantor, journalist and
author
"You must read this carefully documented book" --La Stampa
(Italian national newspaper)
"...promises to be one of the most
influential books of the 21st century." --Dr. Karen Davis, United Poultry
Concerns
"It grips like a thriller." --The Freethinker (UK)
"This
book is going to change the world."
--Albert Kaplan, Albert Kaplan & Co.,
Johns Island, SC
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