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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... plants and the slain prey of other animals . However , she argues that we have managed to repress almost entirely the traumatic memory of our long history , not of hunting , but of being hunted and eaten by animals far more skilled at ...
... gather- ing and hunting to one supported by domesticated plants and animals.19 For hundreds of thousands of years our ancestors had been food gather- ers who relied on hunting , fishing , and foraging 6 THE GREAT DIVIDE.
... plants as part of the " Agricultural Revolution , " trumpeted as the key element in the triumphant march of our species from the Stone Age to civilization . However , the story rarely describes the cruelty involved . Ruthlessness and ...
... during one of the glacial periods in prehistoric times when plant life , man's original diet , disappeared under sheets of ice , or it may have happened because of the prestige associated with the killing 16 THE GREAT DIVIDE.
... plants , not each other . ” " Whether or not we find it practical and desirable , " writes the Protestant theologian Karl Barth , " the diet assigned to men and beasts by God the Creator is vegetarian . ” 3 Moreover , Jewish tradition ...
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 |