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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... took courses and read extensively to learn more . Yuri Suhl , author of They Fought Back : The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Nazi Europe , and Lucjan Dobroszycki of the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research , editor of The Chronicle of ...
... took comfort from Franz Kafka's view : " I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us . If the book we are read- ing doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the skull , why bother reading it in the first place ? So it can ...
... - 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 B.C.E. at a ETERNAL TREBLINKA 19.
... took pity on them , contrary to [ Pompey's ] intentions . " 84 Cicero , who was present , wrote to a friend that " the whole affair was attended by a sort of pity , and a feeling that these huge ani- mals have something in common with ...
... took with them would be impossible to justify ; and to concede that animals had sensa- tion was to make human behaviour seem intolerably cruel . " 105 By designating men as the lords of nature , Descartes created an absolute break ...
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 |