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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... writes that if the fifteen - billion - year lifetime of the universe were compressed into a single year , it would not be until September that the solar system forms ( September 9 ) , the earth condenses out of inter- stellar matter ...
... writes Jared Diamond , when our homo sapiens ancestors devel- oped tools , musical instruments , lamps , a talent for art , and the begin- nings of trade and culture . " Insofar as there was any single point in time when we could be ...
... writes Diamond , " monuments such as the ' Mona Lisa ' and Eroica Symphony , the Eiffel Tower and Sputnik , Dachau's ovens and the bombing of Dresden . " 18 He might well have added animal laboratories , factory farms , and ...
... writes Desmond Morris . " They have lost their genetic independence and are now subject to our breeding whims and fancies . ” " 22 To produce the kinds of animals most useful for their needs , herders killed or castrated most of the ...
... writes Tun Ingold , " their status is that of jural minors , subject to the authority of their human master . " " 32 Since violence begets violence , the enslavement of animals injected a higher level of domination and coercion into ...
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 |