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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... wrote Anti - Semitism : The Road to the Holocaust and Beyond to fill the gap . The summer after its publication I attended the Yad Vashem Institute for Holocaust Education in Jerusalem , where I learned more from Yehuda Bauer , David ...
... wrote that " animals existed for the sake of man " and nature made all animals for his sake.74 The Stoics taught similarly that nature existed solely to serve man's interests.75 Aristotle maintained that man's dominion over animals ...
... 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 B.C.E. at a ETERNAL TREBLINKA 19.
... 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 humankind . " 85 Christianity absorbed the human supremacy views of both the Greeks and the ...
... wrote that human " dominion " over the natural world does not mean indis- criminate killing and the infliction of needless suffering on animals . She questioned the morality of the way animals are currently treated , especially the ...
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 |