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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... began reviewing books for Martyrdom and Resistance , a bimonthly now published by the International Society for Yad Vashem . My awareness of the scope of our society's exploitation and slaugh- ter of animals has been a more recent ...
... began to see the connections that are the sub- ject of this book . I am dedicating the book to the great Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer ( 1904-91 ) , who was the first major writer to focus on the " Nazi " way we treat animals ...
... began to place a gulf between his nature and theirs . He denied the possession of reason to them , and to himself he attributed an immortal soul , and made claims to a divine descent which permitted him to annihilate the bond of ...
... began about 11,000 years ago in the ancient Near East when a number of communities began to shift from a diet sustained by gather- ing and hunting to one supported by domesticated plants and animals.19 For hundreds of thousands of years ...
... began to control women's reproductive capacity , enforcing chastity and sexual repression . " 41 Fisher maintains that it was the vertical , hierarchical positioning of human master over animal slave that intensified human cruelty and ...
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 |