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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... cruelty involved . Ruthlessness and Detachment The enslavement / domestication of animals affected the way humans related to their captive animals and in turn to each other . In hunter- gatherer societies there had often been a sense of ...
... animal slave that intensified human cruelty and laid the foundation for human slavery . The violation of ani- mals expedited the violation of human beings . In taking them in and feeding them , humans first 12 THE GREAT DIVIDE.
... cruelty , guilt , and subsequent numbness . The keeping of animals would seem to have set a model for the enslavement of humans , in particular the large- scale exploitation of women captives for breeding and labor.42 43 Fisher believes ...
... cruelty to animals moderate this principle to some degree . " Judaism is radical in accepting that in practice animals have certain basic rights , " write Dan Cohn - Sherbok and Andrew Linzey . " These are revealed in a variety of ...
... cruelty to animals can be found in Greco - Roman literature . In one instance , Plutarch wrote that the Athenians expelled a man from the city because he skinned a ram while he was still alive . 3983 The second instance took place in 55 ...
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 |