Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the HolocaustThis book explores the similar attitudes and methods behind modern society's treatment of animals and the way humans have often treated each other, most notably during the Holocaust. The book's epigraph and title are from "The Letter Writer," a story by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer: "In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka." The first part of the book (Chapter 1-2) describes the emergence of human beings as the master species and their domination over the rest of the inhabitants of the earth. The second part (Chapters 3-5) examines the industrialization of slaughter (of both animals and humans) that took place in modern times. The last part of the book (Chapters 6-8) profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself. The Foreword is by Lucy Rosen Kaplan, former attorney for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her foreword, the Preface and Afterword, excerpts from the book, chapter synopses, and an international list of supporters can be found on the book's website at: www.powerfulbook.com |
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... Europe , and Lucjan Dobroszycki of the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research , editor of The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto , 1941-1944 , were especially helpful . Later when I became a history teacher and looked for , but could not find , a ...
... European colonies , he points out , " slav- ery , with its markets , its brandings and its constant labour , was one way of dealing with men thought to be beastlike . " 47 An English traveller reported that the Portuguese branded slaves ...
... Europe that it had no reason to feel morally concerned about other species or guilty about exploiting or killing them . He even went so far as to reinterpret the Old Testament passages that advocated kindness toward animals to help ...
... European Christians on the highest rung , a posi- tion that granted them a divine mandate as God's overseers and stewards to rule over the rest of the ladder below . The idea that ( European ) man , flawed and sinful though he might be ...
... ( European ) man had virtually unlimited authority to rule the natural world as " the Viceregent and Deputy of Almighty God . " 93 The fifteenth - century jurist Sir John Fortescue viewed the hierarchi- cal arrangement of all things as a ...
Contents
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MASTER SPECIES MASTER RACE | 51 |
THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF SLAUGHTER The Road to Auschwitz Through America | 53 |
IMPROVING THE HERD From Animal Breeding to Genocide | 81 |
WITHOUT THE HOMAGE OF A TEAR Killing Centers in America and Germany | 109 |
HOLOCAUST ECHOES | 137 |
WE WERE LIKE THAT TOO HolocaustConnected Animal Advocates | 139 |
THIS BOUNDLESS SLAUGHTERHOUSE The Compassionate Vision of Isaac Bashevis Singer | 169 |
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOLOCAUST German Voices for the Voiceless | 201 |
AFTERWORD | 231 |
NOTES | 233 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 271 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 281 |
INDEX | 283 |
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A Violent God-Image: An Introduction to the Work of Eugen Drewermann Matthias Beier Limited preview - 2006 |
The Holocaust and the Henmaid's Tale: A Case for Comparing Atrocities Karen Davis No preview available - 2005 |